US war exercises: A provocation aimed at Korean people

Vol. 83/No. 11 - March 18, 2019

The announcement by Washington that it has decided to permanently cease the Pentagon’s massive annual war “games” in Korea is welcome news for working people everywhere. The Foal Eagle and Key Resolve spring maneuvers are a reminder of the scale…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 11 - March 18, 2019

March 21, 1994 The decision to devalue the African franc brought millions of working people closer to the knife’s edge of survival. The governments of the African Financial Community ostensibly made the choice. But in reality the deed was done…


Letters

Vol. 83/No. 11 - March 18, 2019

Prisoners need right to vote Create a movement that will push for a bill in Congress that will allow all state and federal inmates the right to vote. This will change the paradigm on all elections for all the people.…


Women’s right to an abortion faces gov’t attack in Missouri

Vol. 83/No. 11 - March 18, 2019
Protesters at University of Missouri demonstrate in 2015 in support of women’s right to abortion, demanding university hospital executives reverse decision to cut off admitting privileges for doctors who perform abortions at Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri.

After years of bitter fighting in Missouri courts over the right of Planned Parenthood clinics there to provide abortions, a Feb. 22 federal district court upheld a state law making it illegal for doctors to perform abortions unless they have…


‘These books give a perspective we don’t often hear’

Havana International Book Fair event discusses class struggle in the United States
Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
Feb. 14 panel at Havana book fair. From left, Róger Calero, chair; Yoel Cordoví, vice president of Cuban History Institute; Mary-Alice Waters, Socialist Workers Party and president of Pathfinder Press; Silvio Jova, member of editorial board of Cuban trade union magazine.

HAVANA — “When I read these four volumes on the struggles of the Teamsters, I discovered things I didn’t know,” said Silvio Jova. The most important was, “I learned that U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was no saint. I didn’t…


‘Sharing our histories and experiences is indispensable’

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
Students at University of Las Villas in Santa Clara look over and select books Feb. 19 after presentation and discussion with workers from U.S. and U.K. on the class struggle in the United States.

Below are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at the presentations of Teamster Bureaucracy and In Defense of the US Working Class at the Havana International Book Fair Feb. 14. Copyright © by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. BY MARY-ALICE WATERS…


Yellow vest protesters stand up to French government attacks

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
Yellow vest protest in Paris Feb. 23, the 15th weekend of continuous demonstrations. Many say that for the first time they have found fraternity — working class solidarity — in these protests.

For the 15th consecutive week, tens of thousands of workers and farmers, small businesspeople and self-employed, from provincial France to outer city suburbs, rallied in cities around the country Feb. 23 against President Emmanuel Macron and the French government. They…


SWP campaigns for ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers!’

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
SWP campaigns for ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers!’

SEATTLE — When Henry Dennison, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council here, and supporters were campaigning Feb. 18, they knocked on the door of 28-year-old Katrina Schmitt, who works two jobs as a house cleaner and a caregiver. “My…


Oakland teachers strike for pay raise, smaller class sizes

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
Teachers on strike in Oakland, California, Feb. 21 march for wage raise, smaller class sizes, end to threatened school closures. Students, parents and other workers joined action in solidarity.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Teachers walked off the job here Feb. 21, almost two years after their last contract expired. The 3,000 Oakland Education Association members are fighting for a 12 percent wage increase over three years, for school district officials…


Trump, Kim meet for talks to denuclearize Korea peninsula

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had their second face-to-face summit Feb. 27-28 in Hanoi to continue discussions on the denuclearization of Korea. Any steps towards that end will be good for working people in Korea,…