VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Over 1,100 people died from drug overdoses in this province in 2017. More than 80 percent of the deaths have been linked to fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is wreaking havoc in areas hard hit…
The U.S. State Department announced Jan. 10 that it had downgraded its warning on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens. After alleging last September that its diplomats in Havana had been the victims of mysterious covert “sonic attacks,” the U.S.…
Twenty-three members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have contributed a total of $4,648.11 to the party from bosses’ “blood money” bribes in December and January so far. Many workers get “bonuses” doled out at the end of the…
Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova became known around the world for performing a “punk prayer” against the regime of President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ in February 2012 that led to two-year prison…
Authorities have been implementing a pilot program at several state prisons in New York that severely limits access to books prisoners or their friends and families can order for them to read. As more facts about it have come to…
“The very existence of trade unions in the Russian Federation will be called into question,” the Interregional Labor Union of Automobile Workers (MPRA) — one of the largest unions in Russia — said after the City Court of St. Petersburg…
Below is an excerpt from “Vorkuta (1950-53): Oppositional currents and the mine strikes” from Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The author, Brigitte Gerland, an East German communist, spent some eight…
January 29, 1993 The cowardly bombing of Iraq by U.S. military forces, with some help from Britain and France, is a brutal violation of that nation’s sovereignty. Washington is asserting it has the right to lash out at will against…
For millions of working people forced to live paycheck to paycheck, the speculative mania gripping capitalist investors and middle-class wannabes scurrying to trade in bitcoins today is something out of another world. Accelerating bitcoin sales, and the recent opening of…
CHICAGO — Two more frame-ups perpetrated by former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara unraveled in court here Dec. 21 when Cook County prosecutors dropped charges against Gabriel Solache and Arturo Reyes in a 1998 double homicide. Solache, 43, and Reyes,…
