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…
Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como struck down three state laws that restricted access to abortion in Arizona Feb. 6. The laws required women to provide a reason for seeking an abortion, barred abortion in cases of nonfatal genetic abnormalities,…
MONTREAL — Thousands joined rallies and demonstrations in eight cities across Quebec Feb. 7 protesting the provincial government’s abolition of its Quebec Experience Program (PEQ). Under the program thousands of workers from abroad were brought to work in Quebec, providing…
LOS ANGELES — Some 31,000 Kaiser Hospital nurses and other health care workers in California and Hawaii, organized by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, have been on strike since Jan. 26. Over 3,000 pharmacy technicians,…
February 19, 2001 For decades the British government has sought to cover up its responsibility for the 1972 killing of the civil rights marchers in Derry who were shot down in cold blood by British troops. London hoped this murderous…
Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working class MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched to defend the rights of immigrants to live and work in the U.S. From Chester, New York,…
February 12, 2001 Over the past few months Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken measures to increase Russia’s leverage over neighboring countries, particularly Georgia and Ukraine, which were once republics of the former Soviet Union. Russia’s state-owned gas companies shut…
Seeking to repeat the kind of gunboat diplomacy Washington used to make substantial gains in Venezuela, President Donald Trump has now sent a large armada to the Middle East. He hopes the threat of military action will convince Tehran to…
ATLANTA — “My family comes from Mexico and I can see every day how poorly immigrant workers like my parents are treated in this country,” Tri-Cities High School student Santiago Ozuna, 16, told Socialist Workers Party members Lisa Potash and…
As protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ attacks, arrests and brutality against immigrants, and those who come out to support them, spread, growing numbers of unionists and others have looked to come to their aid. Socialist Workers Party members…
