Oil refinery workers in five provinces of Iran and on five oil-drilling platforms in the Persian Gulf are protesting over wages, pensions and safety conditions. The protests include both “permanent” refinery and drilling-platform workers — who are among the better-paid…
The murderous pogrom Oct. 7 by Hamas and its allies is a stark warning to all working people that Jew-hating slaughter and demagogy are a permanent reality of the world imperialist order. These heinous acts and the bourgeois leaderships that…
October 26, 1998 The most effective way for workers, farmers and other democratic-minded people to respond to the killing of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard by antigay thugs is to join in public protests against this crime and demand full civil…
The Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are campaigning to explain why Israel must be defended as a refuge for Jews and why the pogroms Hamas launched on Israeli citizens must be exposed and…
CHICAGO — Spirited chants of “UAW! UAW! UAW!” and “No deal? No wheels!” filled United Auto Workers Local 551’s Ford workers’ union hall here Oct. 7. Hundreds rallied to hear UAW President Shawn Fain and other speakers, part of the…
MIAMI — Thirty-five people joined a Miami Caravan action here Oct. 1, setting up a lively and highly visible vigil in the pouring rain at the Miami International Airport to demand an end to Washington’s embargo against Cuba and removal…
LOS ANGELES — Over 75,000 Kaiser hospital workers carried out a three-day strike Oct. 4-6 in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Kaiser workers in Virginia and the District of Columbia went out for one day. The central issues are the…
“Cubana 455: Chronicles of October 6,” a three-part documentary and epilogue written and directed by Enrique Berumen BY BERNIE SENTER On Oct. 6, 1976, U.S.-backed enemies of Cuba’s socialist revolution detonated two bombs on Cubana airlines Flight 455. All 73…
Nine days after the bombing of Cubana airlines Flight 455, a million Cubans converged on Revolution Square in Havana. Below are excerpts from the speech Fidel Castro gave on Oct. 15, 1976. In parts of the speech not included here,…
Declining life expectancy in the U.S. — now at its lowest point in over 25 years — is a product of the deepening social and moral crisis of capitalism today. Working people find themselves unable to afford decent medical treatment…
