Statement by Rachele Fruit for the Socialist Workers Party to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization hearing on Puerto Rico, June 22. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Rachele Fruit, and I speak on behalf of the Socialist…
From plummeting math and reading test scores for teenage students, to the government’s plan to slash funds for child care, to rising health care costs alongside hospital closings — over 175 in rural areas over the last 15 years —…
“There is no immediate threat to Yellowstone County,” the sheriff’s office there claimed, hours after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed when a bridge over the Yellowstone River collapsed upstream near Columbus, Montana, June 24. “At this time there are…
ERIE, Pa. — Hundreds of strikers picketed at the gates of the Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant here after 1,400 workers voted down the bosses’ takeback contract demands June 22. The workers are members of United Electrical Workers Local 506, which…
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department is another step along the course the Democratic Party has been pressing for seven years of criminalizing political opposition and debate,”…
The seizure of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries and their aborted armed march on Moscow highlight the dangers for working people in Russia, Ukraine and worldwide in the crisis unfolding within Vladimir Putin’s secret-police-based capitalist…
OBERLIN, Ohio — The political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes adopted by the June 12 expanded leadership meeting to guide party work culminated several days of plenary talks, summary presentations, classes and discussions during the international…
July 6, 1998 The strike by 6,400 telephone workers in Puerto Rico against the sale of the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company has become a lightning rod for working-class resistance and nationalist sentiment in this Caribbean nation, the largest U.S.…
The Ukrainian government has launched a counteroffensive aimed at retaking territory seized by Moscow’s forces since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country to try to subjugate its people. Ukrainian forces are making slow gains in fierce battles, while the…
June 29, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — Hundreds of unionists and others gathered outside of the General Motors Delphi East plant on June 11 to greet some of the 5,800 union members expected to join the strike against the auto giant.…
