In a serious blow to political rights, a Ukrainian administrative court in Lviv July 5 upheld the government’s longstanding ban on the Communist Party and the Happy Ukraine Party. Both were among the 11 parties ordered shut down by President…
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions protecting the constitutional right to freedom of worship are good for working people. At the same time, these rulings are attacked by liberals as reactionary and as a further reason why Democrats must win…
People living in the largely devastated outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol erupted in a substantial protest July 8 after two pensioners died in the street trying to find drinking water. A meeting at a school in the Volonterivka…
PHILADELPHIA — The three-week effort to win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, got off to a strong start here July 9-10. Through discussions door to door and at…
WASHINGTON — Pathfinder Press sales volunteers came from seven cities and towns across North America to staff the Pathfinder booth here at the first in-person American Library Association conference in three years. Almost 14,000 attended the June 24-27 event. The…
An unprecedented number of executions were set by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals July 1, looking to put to death 25 of the state’s 43 death-row prisoners starting this August through 2024, almost one death per month. Dates were…
Four teachers’ unions in Ghana, West Africa, went on strike July 4 after the government refused to pay teachers and nonteaching staff a cost-of-living allowance of at least 20% of their wages. Annual inflation in the country is now 27.6%.…
Sixty-one years after African anti-imperialist independence fighter Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, a gold-crowned tooth, the only part of his body that exists, was buried in a state funeral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30. The date marked…
McCOOK, Ill. — Some 300 members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 went on strike June 7 against three Chicago-area quarry companies — Lehigh Hanson, Vulcan Materials and Lafarge Holcim — over unfair labor practices. The local has…
