MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to attack Cuba. The action was organized by a dozen groups and promoted by the Quebec-Cuba…
Moscow launched more than two dozen missiles and hundreds of drones in a major assault on Ukrainian residential areas and its power grid Jan. 13. The goal of President Vladimir Putin’s regime is to leave civilians without heat, power and…
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…
CINCINNATI — Campaigning door to door at the Montana Valley Apartments here Jan. 6, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, John Hawkins, met 20-year-old Amazon worker Tayvon Satcher. “My campaign stands in solidarity with Venezuela,” Hawkins said. “We say…
The Socialist Workers Party condemns in the strongest possible terms Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and its seizure of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Adela Flores, his wife. We condemn President Donald Trump’s stated goal for the US government and…
In the early morning Jan. 3 Venezuelans in Caracas and surrounding areas were awakened by explosions and aircraft flying overhead as U.S. forces carried out a murderous military assault aimed at forcing Venezuela’s government to submit to Washington’s imperialist dictates.…
The Iranian regime’s Tasnim News claimed Jan. 6 that protests that began among shopkeepers in the bazaar in Tehran Dec. 28 and then spread across the country — including to small towns and universities — were now “moving toward complete…
At night on Dec. 27, the mayor of Arraiján, an upscale suburb of Panama City, sent bulldozers to demolish a monument built in 2004 to pay tribute to the thousands of Chinese laborers who died building the first railroad crossing…
ROCHDALE, England — After five days of strike action at Tetrosyl’s warehouse and distribution operation here, north of Manchester, some 80 workers are determined to prevent bosses from imposing a substantial wage cut. Workers were told they must sign a…
