NEW YORK — Several hundred members of the United Mine Workers union rallied and picketed outside the offices of BlackRock here July 28 to support striking miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama. BlackRock is the largest hedge fund…
WASHINGTON — Some 300 people joined a July 25 protest at Lafayette Park near the White House, demanding an end to the more than 60-year-long U.S. economic war against Cuba. The action welcomed Seattle school teacher Carlos Lazo and other…
Gloria Richardson, a leader in the fight for Black rights in the U.S., died July 15. She was 99. As head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee in Cambridge, Maryland, an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she led…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — Over 1,500 unionists and other workers from Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia and Missouri converged in cars and buses on the ballpark in this small town where 1,100 members…
Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…
“SWP campaigners come out of the July 22-24 Socialist Workers Party International Conference better prepared to join in the struggles of working people and point the road forward to building a party that will lead millions to overturn capitalist rule…
August 19, 1996 The following statement was issued July 31 by Socialist Workers Party candidates for U.S. president and vice president, James Harris and Laura Garza. Capitalizing on the explosion of Trans World Airlines flight 800 with the loss of…
While the bosses’ press celebrates a profit bonanza on Wall Street, millions of workers still don’t have jobs, employers are fighting to hold down wages as prices keep rising, and the federal government’s COVID-based bar on evictions has expired. Changing…
French President Emmanuel Macron is using deadly assaults by Islamists to push through legislation restricting free speech and freedom of worship. The laws make what he calls “separatism” a criminal offense in the name of imposing “French values.” The Law…
OREWA, New Zealand — Hundreds of angry farmers rode their tractors through 55 towns and cities across New Zealand July 16 in a “Howl of a Protest” against new environmentally motivated restrictions enacted or proposed by the Labour Party government…
