Fed up with strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed in Shanghai by the Chinese rulers over the past two months, workers at Quanta, a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes MacBook laptops, have organized protests against the conditions they face. This has included…
Letters from Prison: A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-WWII Labor Battles by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of June’s Books of the Month. Cannon, with 17 other cadres of the SWP and…
MANCHESTER, England — Rail bosses’ attempt to fire union fighter Peter Clifford here is being met by a strong response from workers and their union determined to win his job back. A statement from Clifford’s Rail, Maritime and Transport union…
June 23, 1997 In his recent travels, president William Clinton has been touting the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 as a model for peace and economic development. Under this scheme, the U.S. rulers provided $13 billion in loans to…
RICHMOND, Calif. — After 10 weeks on strike, hundreds of workers at the Chevron refinery here voted May 27-28 to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The contract was similar to the one they rejected twice, before…
The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…
Oberlin College officials filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court May 13 following two consecutive losses both in a jury trial and in the state Court of Appeals in the case brought by the Gibson family, owners of the…
After four days of negotiations, talks between Case New Holland Industrial and the United Auto Workers on strike at the agricultural implement and heavy equipment manufacturer ended without an agreement May 19. Workers at the company’s factories in Sturtevant, Wisconsin,…
MANCHESTER, England — A large majority of the 40,000 union members at 15 train operating companies across the U.K. and Network Rail, the company responsible for rail infrastructure, voted May 25 to authorize a strike over wages, job cuts and…
HAVANA — “The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation is an important contribution by the revolutionary fighter Abram Leon,” said José Altshuler. “He wrote it to explain the foundations of anti-Jewish hatred in the imperialist epoch and the road to its…
