BEND, Ore. — Some 1,000 high school students walked out of school here to protest ICE brutality and attacks on the rights of immigrants Feb. 13. The protest was organized by Bend Student Voices. Students from all four of the…
“Hiring rebounded in January,” proclaimed a headline in the Feb. 12 Wall Street Journal, hailing the Labor Department’s announcement that 130,000 jobs were created that month. This “blew past expectations,” the Financial Times enthused, “signaling that the labour market is…
The fight of Kurds for self-determination was dealt serious blows when Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa sent forces in January to seize the autonomous zone controlled for years by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria. Washington backed al-Sharaa’s move…
“U.S. government policy of hostility toward Cuba has been in place since the very triumph of the Cuban Revolution back in January 1959,” Yuri Gala López, deputy permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, told a Feb. 15 webinar…
HAVANA — Militant reporters joined 75 people for a poetry reading at a popular cultural center here Feb. 13. The next day we were invited to a Valentine’s Day peña (cultural performance) hosted by members of the University for Older…
MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the government’s “drawdown” removing 700 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 2,000 of them remain in Minnesota. They’re conducting raids and arrests of immigrant workers and increasingly of protesters who obstruct their operations. At the same time,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — On Jan. 21, the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker. Walker, a 19-year-old Black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old…
SAN FRANCISCO — After going on strike Feb 9, teachers here have set up picket lines at schools across the city and held giant rallies to press their demands. This is the first teachers strike in San Francisco in 47…
Merchants of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran have called for nationwide actions Feb. 17, 18 and 19 to commemorate the thousands massacred across Iran by the reactionary capitalist regime during the recent wave of protests against its rule. Families in…
MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League stands in the front lines of battles by working people,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election said. He was talking with seven workers, originally from Pakistan, at a…
