Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and over the one-month-long occupation of Chernobyl, has brought renewed attention to the 1986 nuclear disaster there and its continuing effects. Russian troops occupied the site Feb. 24, the first day of the invasion, and a…
FRESNO, Calif. — Farmer Will Scott invited Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton to his farm here April 5 to discuss how small farmers are affected by sharply rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine and what workers…
LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…
RICHMOND, Calif. — On strike since March 21, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, which represents over 500 production and maintenance workers, are picketing 24/7 at the Chevron oil refinery here and winning support. Strikers on the picket line April…
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 500 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 at the Chevron refinery near here in Richmond have been on strike since March 21. They have been receiving solidarity from area workers and need more. But one…
TORONTO — A tribute was held here April 17 to Reza Baraheni, a leader of the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran and one of its most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics. Baraheni died in March at…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Thousands of nurses walked off the job April 25 and began picketing outside both Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital here, in a strike over understaffing, work stress, wages, retiree health benefits and access to…
Weeks of protests by tens of thousands of workers, farmers and youth continue across Sri Lanka, demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. Soaring inflation, spreading power outages and shortages of food and fuel are devastating millions, as the country’s rulers put…
Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is being featured this week to mark the 61st anniversary of this historic event. In under 72 hours, April 17-20, 1961, Cuba’s…
When Carl Wayne Buntion was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, April 21, his lawyers said it violated the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting “cruel and unusual punishment.” The 78-year-old prisoner was confined to…
