Cuba tells UN: ‘US blockade punishes life of our people’ “The long months living with only two or three hours of electricity a day or less, food spoiling, the heat that makes it impossible to sleep, parents fanning their babies,…
The U.S. rulers, with the aid of their Democratic and Republican parties, are at the forefront of conflicts among rival capitalist powers that are marching humanity toward a third world war, as the imperialists have done twice before since the…
Businesses shut down all across the Kurdish region of Iran Sept. 16 on the fourth anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman died at the hands of the hated “morality” police after her arrest in Tehran…
Hundreds of Mexican long-haul truck drivers organized protests on their side of the U.S.-Mexico border Sept. 3-7. Drivers used their semis and other means to block the commercial crossings between Mexicali, in Baja California, Mexico, and Calexico, just across the…
The growing lack of safe drinking water in Cuba today is a product of the U.S. government’s ever-tightening oil blockade and punishing sanctions against the import of energy and other resources. This means a much greater risk of serious health…
Working-class families, including the young men and women in uniform in the U.S., just got a stark lesson in how little the capitalist rulers here are concerned about the well-being of its troops. For the ruling families, they’re just cannon…
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…
The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…
NEWARK, Calif. — After a month on strike, picket lines at Cargill Salt are still up 24/7 in a hard-fought fight over wages and medical coverage. A key issue is the draconian monthly payments of $1,200 that workers have taken…
SEATTLE — Hundreds of teachers, members of the Seattle Education Association, rallied here Sept. 1, the day before school reopened, to press their fight for a new contract. Parents, students, unionists and others gathered on the front lawn of Seattle…
