Cleanup of toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, after Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment. Working people there are fighting to open rail bosses’ books, take control of health and cleanup.

East Palestine: ‘Get out truth about derailment, cleanup’

Residents, rail workers seek control over their lives

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, small farmers and small-business people here, as well as rail workers across the country, continue to discuss steps to advance their interests after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and ensuing toxic chemical…


Support Ukraine independence! Moscow get out of all of Ukraine!

Yelena Tarbayeva holds sign, “Putin eats children” at court in Tula region south of Moscow April 6. She traveled 600 miles from St. Petersburg to support Alexei Moskalyov and his daughter, Maria, persecuted and separated for their anti-war views after Maria drew picture like this.

After 10 months of bloody fighting for Bakhmut, currently the central battle in Ukraine’s defense of its independence, Moscow’s forces are using scorched-earth tactics to shell more of the city to rubble. They’re inching forward against Ukrainian troops holding high-rise…




Seniors on Medicaid face eviction from assisted-living homes

To the profit-driven capitalist rulers, the lives of retired workers, especially those with disabilities, don’t mean much, as there’s no longer any profits to be made through exploiting their labor. One reflection of the social and moral crisis of their…


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Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.