Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a far-reaching effort to deport hundreds of thousands of workers without papers, posing a serious challenge to the labor movement. Trump slanders immigrant workers, saying millions are criminals or worse, and…
December 18, 2000 The assault on working people by the U.S. government over the past two decades has hit working-class women particularly hard. From the federal legislation that ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1996, working women and…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is utilizing Signature to transport immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents here to detention centers in…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Some 3,000 teachers and other school workers went on strike against the West Contra Costa Unified School District Dec. 4, demanding better wages and adequate staffing. This is their first strike since the district was founded in…
Hamas leaders make it clear they have no intention of disarming, nor of giving up their brutal stranglehold on Gaza or abandoning their goal of destroying Israel and eliminating the Jews. As the weeks go by with no moves to…
LONDON — More than 150 workers, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union, went on strike at the Tate galleries in Liverpool, London and St. Ives Nov. 26-Dec. 2, demanding higher pay. Strikers at the Tate Modern here carried…
Nov. 7 marked the 108th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, led by V.I. Lenin. That powerful revolution showed workers can take political power into our own hands, and showed the kind of revolutionary working-class political party that is needed.…
Mounting conflicts between the world’s rival capitalist powers over economic supremacy, political domination and the threat of new wars were exposed at the Nov. 22-23 G20 summit. Washington refused to attend, while the governments of Brazil and host nation South…
LONDON — A catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court complex left at least 159 dead, with dozens of people still missing as of Dec. 3. The inferno began at the high-rise apartments Nov. 26 and has drawn comparisons…
Bamako, the capital of Mali, with 4 million people, is being choked off by a blockade imposed by Islamist rebels, preventing fuel, food and other goods from getting to the city, in an effort to bring down Mali’s military government.…
