After nearly five years of persistent high prices, with the costs for rent, electricity, health care and more up at least 25% since 2020, class differentiations are sharpening. The working class faces increasing difficulties making ends meet, while the capitalist…
Below is the introduction by Mary-Alice Waters to the new book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa by Víctor Dreke. Waters is the editor of the book…
MONTREAL — Pathfinder Books, which features books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries worldwide, from Fidel Castro to Russian revolutionaries V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, mounted a sizable stand at the Nov. 19-23 Salon du livre…
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.…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “Cuba and other countries of Latin America are facing real challenges today, as the U.S. government moves to take military action against Venezuela,” Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a meeting of 55…
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. — Ruperto Vicens, a chef and co-owner of a popular Mexican restaurant here, was released from Newark Delaney Hall Detention Center Nov. 18, following a campaign on his behalf that included rallies in this town of some…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Over 200 striking refuse workers and supporters rallied Dec. 1 at the Smithfield waste depot near the city center here to celebrate their reinforcement by dozens of workers employed by the Job & Talent temp agency. Chanting…
