‘We’ll protest until all the lights are on in Puerto Rico’

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018
‘We’ll protest until all the lights are on in Puerto Rico’

More than 200 residents of Aguas Buenas and nearby towns marched outside Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s central offices in San Juan Feb. 12. They sang, “We come from Aguas Buenas to let you know, if the light doesn’t come…


Liberals hail FBI witch hunt against Trump White House

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Liberals are singing the praises of the U.S. political police after former FBI boss Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian organizations for conspiracy to “defraud the United States” by interfering in politics here. The Feb. 16 indictments…


Agreement ends final case against Quebec rail worker

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

On Jan. 19 locomotive engineer Tom Harding and train traffic controller Richard Labrie, members of United Steelworkers Local 1976, won acquittal by a jury on frame-up charges of criminal negligence for the deaths of 47 people in the July 2013…


Protesters demand Aboriginal rights, hit racist ‘Australia Day’

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

SYDNEY — Tens of thousands of people, overwhelmingly youth, protested around the country Jan. 26 in the largest demonstrations in support of Aboriginal rights in decades. The actions were called to counter the rulers’ patriotic Australia Day holiday. Aboriginal people…


End US sanctions against North Korea! Korea is one!

Letter from Socialist Workers Party National Committee
Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Below is a Feb. 15 letter from Steve Clark, on behalf of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, to the people of Korea on the occasion of their Feb. 16 national holiday. The Socialist Workers Party and Young…


Amnesty now! No deportations!

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

The Socialist Workers Party says, “Stop the deportation of the ‘dreamers.’” We stand for this as part of the fight to win amnesty for all 11 million workers who don’t have papers recognized by the courts and the cops in…


NY cop who killed Deborah Danner is let off

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

NEW YORK — On Feb. 15 State Supreme Court Judge Robert Neary acquitted Sgt. Hugh Barry of murder in the killing of Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia. Once again, the decision shows the difficulty in winning a…



See Cuba for yourself, sign up for May Day Brigade

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

You have a unique opportunity this spring to spend two weeks in Cuba to learn firsthand how workers and farmers there made a revolution in 1959, what it means for them today and the example it provides for us here…


The FBI, US rulers’ political police, is the enemy of the working class!

Vol. 82/No. 8 - February 26, 2018

Since it was tasked with going after revolutionary-minded workers and “subversive activity” in 1939, the FBI has an unbroken record of trampling on political rights. In their frenzy to derail the Donald Trump presidency, the liberal press and middle-class left…