LONDON — Carrying signs saying, “Don’t blame your drivers, blame our bosses,” striking bus drivers picketed the Westbourne Park Garage Sept. 1. Some 2,000 drivers, engineers and controllers, members of Unite the Union, walked out for two days at seven…
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Nurses Association finally won a new contract with Albany Medical Center this August. For the last year and a half, union nurses have been on a campaign here to improve working conditions and…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “The imperialist epoch we are living through today is characterized by deepening cutthroat competition between rival powers for resources, markets and labor to exploit,” Norton Sandler, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told…
MONTREAL — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Aug. 23-27 working trip to Europe — with stops in Poland, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine — demonstrated his Liberal government aims to advance its position as an imperialist world power. It goes alongside…
From left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, Sept. 1. Xi and Putin claim their alliances are a “multipolar” alternative to Washington’s…
BALTIMORE — After 170 days in prison in both the U.S. and El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego García won his fight to be released from prison on parole Aug. 22. The wrongfully detained 30-year-old apprentice sheet metal worker and member of…
Washington is deploying a significant naval and military armada, the U.S. rulers’ latest move in its longstanding efforts to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela and overthrow its president, Nicolás Maduro. It is also a show of force aimed at intimidating…
CHICAGO — “This is my first time on strike, and I’m learning a lot,” Linne Boyd, right, a member of Teamsters Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions, told David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and SWP member…
President Donald Trump met with government leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House Aug. 8 and they signed a joint declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict and wars between the two former Soviet republics. The…
MONTREAL — Since Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, attacks on Jews in Canada have grown. B’nai Brith Canada reports 6,219 incidents of Jew-hatred across the country in 2024, more than double the number in 2022. The attacks…
