MANCHESTER, England — More than 160,000 workers, including rail, postal, dockworkers and others, held a one-day strike across the U.K. Oct. 1, protesting sharp price raises and attacks on job conditions. Railroad signalers, platform workers, conductors and drivers joined a…
October 20, 1997 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of workers and youth marched here Oct. 1 as part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the proposed sale of the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. One of the…
Ukrainian forces reconquered more territory in the country’s south and east as they advance against Moscow’s seven-month invasion aimed at destroying Ukraine’s independence. As his war falters, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed four regions of Ukraine seized by Moscow were…
This week’s selection from October Books of the Month is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, first published in 1884. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern…
Three days before a Sept. 29 strike deadline set by vote of the 6,600 members of International Association of Machinists District 19 — locomotive machinists, track equipment mechanics and facility maintenance workers — the union announced it had reached a…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…
Despite brutal repression by government forces, protests against the police killing of Mahsa Amini have spread to all of Iran’s 31 provinces, and among working people from the country’s main nationalities and religions. Amini, a Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16,…
Socialist Workers Party members and Militant supporters are joining with thousands around the world who have taken to the streets in solidarity with protesters in Iran, outraged after Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, died after being detained by the…
Both Cuba and Florida suffered serious damage from Hurricane Ian. In Pinar del Río, Cuba’s hardest hit province, some 53,000 homes were damaged, more than 5,000 destroyed, and the tobacco processing industry — a major source of hard currency —…
