25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019

March 14, 1994 SYDNEY, Australia — Five hundred dock workers, members of the Maritime Union of Australia, walked off the job February 10 at the two Sydney port operations of Australian Stevedores. They struck to oppose the forced redundancies (permanent…


W. Va. workers discuss crisis, importance of teachers strike

Socialist Workers Party campaigns in coal country
Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
Above, picket line in Hurricane, West Virginia, during Feb. 19-20 strike by school workers. Inset, Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun, left, talks with former miner Eddie McLaughlin in Kermit. SWP campaigners went door to door talking to workers about conditions they face and need for solidarity with strikers.

On Feb. 20 Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Kentucky governor, and campaign supporter Samir Hazboun went to West Virginia’s coal country to talk to working people at their doorsteps about conditions they face, and about the school workers…


Social crisis continues in Venezuela — US hands off!

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019
People wait on long lines outside store while motorists also wait to get fuel in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, Nov. 10. Working people face shortages in food, medicine, other necessities.

U.S.-groomed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself president in January, appealed to Washington Feb. 25 to take more aggressive measures to oust the government of Nicolás Maduro. But Vice President Mike Pence, who met with Guaidó and government…



Liberals champion FBI role in hysteria to oust Donald Trump

Vol. 83/No. 10 - March 11, 2019

A new book and round of widely covered media interviews by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe give an idea of the extent of the spy agency leadership’s functioning as a partisan political operation working to overturn the results of…


‘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…




Liberals’ ‘Green New Deal’ scheme no road forward for working people

Vol. 83/No. 9 - March 4, 2019

“We will save all of creation!” Sen. Edward Markey claimed when he and House of Representatives member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched their “Green New Deal” Feb. 7. Their scheme is backed by a number of Democratic Party 2020 presidential candidates and…


Thousands protest in Haiti, demand president, prime minister resign

Vol. 83/No. 9 - March 4, 2019
Haitian working people gather in Port-au-Prince Feb. 7 demanding President Jovenel Moise resign. Protests were triggered by soaring inflation, youth joblessness and rampant corruption.

Working people in Haiti have been mounting widespread protests since Feb. 7 demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise and Prime Minister Jean Henry Ceant. A social crisis has wracked the country since hurricanes hit in 2008, 2012 and 2016,…