NY yellow cab drivers are being driven to their death

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

NEW YORK — Babacar Dem, a yellow cab driver originally from Senegal, died during a break in his work shift in the bathroom of a Bronx chicken shop in late August. He was the fourth cab driver to die while…


NY Mayor Mamdani’s remarks Oct. 7 attack Jews, Israel

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a message Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the bloody Hamas pogrom in Israel, the biggest assault on Jews since the Holocaust. But he focused not on that atrocity, but on slanders against…


Workers look at Democrats and Republicans, see ‘nothing for us’

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

As Socialist Workers Party candidates introduce the only working-class campaign across the country, they’re meeting many workers who say they can see no reason to vote for either the Democrats or Republicans. Pundits in the big-business press have noticed the…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

October 15, 2001 A number of organizations met in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques Sept. 26 in a popular assembly and decided to continue their protests demanding an end to the U.S. Navy’s bombardment and occupation of large sections…


CL campaigns against rise in threats, attacks on Jews in UK

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Jonathan Silberman, right, Communist League candidate in Holborn and St. Pancras by-election in London, campaigns at Oct. 4 march marking working-class protest in 1936 against Jew-hating action by British fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, former leader of Labour Party left.

LONDON — “Only the Communist League is placing the fight against Jew-hatred as a key issue in its campaigning,” Jonathan Silberman told over 100 people at an election candidates’ debate Sept. 24. He is the Communist League candidate in the…


Help get truth out about Cuba’s revolution

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

The U.N. General Assembly will debate and vote on an annual resolution calling on Washington to end its blockade against Cuba Oct. 27-28. This year’s vote takes place after the U.S. rulers imposed a total oil blockade and sharply escalated…



Botched execution tortures woman in Tennessee prison

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a cruel and gruesome failed attempt by state officials to execute her Sept. 30 at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville. Pike…


Rallies defend immigrant workers in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Students march and rally in Denver Sept. 4 after walking out of class at more than 200 high schools in Colorado to demand a halt to ICE raids, construction of new ICE detention centers.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on three towns in southwestern Kansas — Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal — at the end of September, stopping cars and making arrests of immigrant workers. Their operations were met by protests by…