NEW YORK — “We have had to face many challenges and adversities to get here, but it has been worth it,” Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Yuri A. Gala López said at a Jan. 21 meeting here to celebrate…
It has been nearly two years since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime launched its invasion of Ukraine, hoping to seize Kyiv, kill the elected leadership and take control over the country within a few days. But working people of Ukraine,…
The Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaigns are being launched across the country and are getting attention. A Jan. 15 press release announcing the party was running Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate from New Jersey and Lea Sherman for U.S. Congress…
Some 1,100 teachers and 800 teaching aides went on strike in Newton, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 following an overwhelming vote for action by members of the Newton Teachers Association. “The most important issue is better pay and schedules for the teaching…
The state of Alabama has set Jan. 25 for the execution of death-row prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, slated to suffer the first execution in the country by suffocation from nitrogen gas, despite the fact that appeals in the case are…
EL CERRITO, Calif. — On Jan. 6 thugs physically attacked counterprotesters here who were defending Israel’s right to exist and fighting for the defeat of Hamas. The attackers screamed epithets, knocked down and bloodied one woman and grabbed two Israeli…
MONTREAL — “Jan. 1 marked the 65th anniversary of the victory of the rebels in Cuba, who were fighting to build a better society based on respect and full dignity of man,” Angélica María Fuentes, Cuba’s consul in Montreal, told…
Hamas is a murderous, reactionary and anti-working-class outfit whose founding covenant calls for wiping Israel off the face of the earth and the slaughter of all the Jews. It has become an increasingly central link in Tehran’s “axis of resistance.”…
Working-class solidarity is crucial to strengthen today’s union struggles and build a more powerful labor movement. Flight attendants are urging fellow workers to join their picket lines at 30 airports worldwide Feb. 13 as part of the fight for new…
February 1, 1999 President William Clinton repeated in his State of the Union address a favorite theme of bourgeois politicians: that Social Security may be bankrupt within a few decades because a bigger section of the population is living longer…
