Iraida Aguirrechu was one of the hundreds of thousands of Cuban women and men whose entire life trajectory was shaped — and made possible — by Cuba’s socialist revolution. A revolution that has defied more than six decades of attempts…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is now preparing to turn his nearly yearlong invasion of Ukraine into a drawn-out and grinding war, with systematic air and artillery attacks on civilian targets. He’s building up troop levels and weaponry for a new…
VISALIA, Calif. — Three years of drought and now floods from heavy rains have had a severe impact on the conditions and livelihoods of farmers and workers in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in…
Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are launching efforts to get out The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward as…
A mood of doom and gloom hovered over the gathering of some 2,700 bosses, bankers, speculators, government officials and meritocratic hangers-on at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16-20. Underlying their despondency is the sharpening political and social…
“This Day in History” on Fox News retold the story about the Jan. 2, 1920, “Palmer Raids,” carried out by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his right-hand man, J. Edgar Hoover. They “unleashed a shocking…
MADISON, Wisc. — Some 2,000 people took part in a women’s march and rally here Jan. 22 calling for the overturn of an 1849 state law banning nearly all abortions, and for the reopening of clinics that provide the procedure.…
MANCHESTER, England — “Representatives from the RMT and ASLEF rail worker unions came and showed their solidarity with the nurses. They handed around a sheet with 130 messages of support from workers from Piccadilly Station,” reported the Manchester Evening News…
PARIS — Striking workers led over a million people at some 220 demonstrations across the country Jan. 19 to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to raise the retirement age. Protests were accompanied by strikes of gas, electrical and rail workers,…
LEESBURG, Va. — Striking Loudoun County bus operators, mechanics and other members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 marched in the annual Martin Luther King parade here Jan. 16. They formed part of a labor contingent that included the Northern…
