The Syrian government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered its forces to lay siege to three largely Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, Jan. 6-11. They seized control of two of them, Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, driving out…
Before dawn on Jan. 10 a Jew-hating arsonist set fire to the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, the largest in the state. Two Torah scrolls, holding the most sacred Jewish religious text, were destroyed and five others damaged…
The capitalist economic crisis in the U.S. continues to tighten the squeeze on working people, with jobs — especially decent-paying, full-time jobs — becoming increasingly difficult to get. Amid high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to transportation, housing, health…
Following Washington’s invasion of Venezuela, President Donald Trump called on Congress to increase the U.S. rulers’ current record-level war spending — $901 billion budgeted this year so far — by more than 50%. Trump’s demands come amid a sharp acceleration…
As we mark the 67th anniversary of the popular triumph in Cuba that opened the way to the first socialist revolution in the Americas, the Spanish edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary…
Rapacious wars over land and labor have marked the capitalist system since it replaced feudal rule. The drive to ever-deadlier world war is a permanent reality in the imperialist epoch, announced in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today, the rivalry…
January 22, 2001 The labor movement needs to respond to the power shortages, rate hikes, and skyrocketing fuel prices by demanding government expropriation of the power and energy companies. The anarchy of capitalism, especially in times of economic crisis, brings…
After launching a military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, Jan. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration has taken further steps to advance the U.S. rulers’ economic, political and military objectives in Venezuela and across the hemisphere.…
In the wake of the killing of thousands of protesters by the Iranian regime, a two-week wave of demonstrations that began Dec. 28 and spread throughout the country has been pushed back — for the moment. The scope of the…
MONTREAL — “Washington’s Jan. 3 bombing of Caracas and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is another major step toward a third imperialist world war driven by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system,”…
