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Letters

‘Send me your newspaper’ I ran across one of your newspapers that was left in a cell after I moved in. It wasn’t the full edition, but I loved the articles on Ukraine and the way you support the overworked…

Protests demand Australia grant visas to 1,000s of asylum-seekers

SYDNEY — A protest set for Nov. 6 here will challenge the Australian Labor Party government’s failure to carry out a promise to grant permanent visas to thousands of asylum-seekers. For years they have been barred by successive governments from…

Meeting discusses political legacy of Thomas Sankara

WASHINGTON — Some 30 people, many originally from Africa, came together here Oct. 17 to discuss the political legacy of Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso and the country’s president. This is the 35th…

San Bernardino Amazon workers fight for a raise

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —“We want safety, no retaliation,” several hundred community members and unionists chanted, joining over 100 workers from Amazon’s largest air freight facility on the West Coast, called KSBD Oct. 14. They carried signs saying, “Prime shoppers beware,…

Join protests to oppose US economic war on Cuba!

Demonstrations and other activities will take place in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 calling for the end to Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba. The…

Back Ukraine people’s fight for sovereignty

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, issued Oct. 26. Studer made three reporting trips to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Socialist Workers Party candidates present an independent working-class foreign policy that starts from the common class…

Iran protests expand, win support, challenge regime

Workers’ strikes add momentum to the protests

Teachers across Iran joined three days of mourning and then held “sit-ins” at elementary and high schools across the country Oct. 23 and 24 in response to the call by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Union Associations “to…

Ukraine pushes Moscow back, defending its independence!

Eight months into its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is resorting to the systematic bombing of civilian areas of Ukraine’s major cities and the destruction of vital infrastructure, as a Ukrainian counteroffensive threatens to retake the city of Kherson in the…

Vote Socialist Workers Party, back working class struggles!

With early voting already underway, both Democrats and Republicans claim the midterm elections are the most important in decades. The bosses’ two main parties are laser focused on factional battles against each other. Whichever party controls the House and Senate…

Rail workers protest, debate road forward to defeat bosses’ attacks

LINCOLN, Neb. — The big railroad bosses and their well-heeled capitalist investors are determined to keep their profits high at the expense of the lives and safety of the very workers who do all the work. Over 100,000 rail workers…