DENVER — Teachers, school workers and their supporters rallied outside the state Capitol here April 27. Some 10,000 turned out to demand more funding for public schools, higher wages and to oppose efforts by legislators to cut their pensions. The…
HAVANA — Among the events here in the days surrounding the massive working-class mobilization on May Day was a conference addressing challenges facing workers and the unions in Cuba and the world. Plenary sessions and panels took up topics ranging…
Tens of thousands of workers joined in a one-day strike and protests in cities and rural areas across South Africa April 25 called by the South African Federation of Trade Unions. They demanded a significant raise in the African National…
In a victory for political rights, former Black Panther Herman Bell was released from Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, April 27 after spending nearly 45 years behind bars. Bell was freed despite furious opposition and a media blitz…
PHOENIX — A sea of people in red T-shirts flowed down the streets here April 26, the first day of a statewide walkout by teachers and other school workers in Arizona. More than 50,000 marched and rallied at the state…
BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. — A team of Socialist Workers Party members and supporters returned to the coal mining region in West Virginia April 27-30 to speak with miners and other workers the party had met during the recent school workers strike…
The strikes and protests by teachers and other school workers from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona and now North Carolina is something new. We have not seen a working-class fight like this in decades. “It’s a class of…
After five days of protests by tens of thousands of students, workers and others across the country, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega revoked his April 16 directive to raise social security payroll taxes and cut benefits. But even after the reversal…
Kim Jong Un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North, met South Korean President Moon Jae-in April 27, the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2007. The meeting — and more to…
