LONDON — Hospital workers, members of the Unite union, held a lively strike picket line here Feb. 20 on the busy main road by the entrance to the Royal London Hospital, part of the Barts NHS Trust chain, the largest…
FAIRFAX, Va. — Over 600 bus drivers and mechanics, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, went on strike here Feb. 22 against Transdev, a contractor for Fairfax Connector bus company. The strikers have been fighting for a new contract…
The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…
The Israeli government gave Hamas leaders a deadline of Ramadan in early March to release all the roughly 100 hostages it still holds captive. Otherwise, it said, the Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive on Rafah, on the…
Thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers went on a one-day strike on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, in more than a dozen U.S. cities, and at some airports, including Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Newark, New Jersey. Workers turned off…
HAVANA — The 32nd Havana International Book Fair is a “demonstration of the value our government places on books and reading, given the difficult world situation and intensification of the criminal U.S. blockade,” Juan Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Book…
The Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party and other Stalinist currents in the U.S. are telling workers Donald Trump is so dangerous they have to back Joseph Biden, the candidate of the Democratic Party, one of the capitalist rulers’ two…
WAYNE, N.J. — A debate continued at the Feb. 7 Wayne City Council meeting here over a resolution the council had adopted Dec. 20 defending Israel’s war against Hamas, calling for the release of all the hostages held by Hamas…
This is the Editor’s Note by Mary-Alice Waters to the new Pathfinder Press expanded edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. Tablada received the Special Prize from the Cuban cultural institution…
UNION CITY, N. J. — “We are living through a watershed moment in politics, following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of Jews in Israel,” said Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New…
