Millions remain out of work, with fresh unemployment claims rising to 965,000 in the U.S. for the week of Jan. 14, the highest since August. Hardest hit continue to be hotel, restaurant and other service workers, with many of these…
Hundreds of thousands of working farmers are maintaining their protests around the Indian capital, New Delhi, determined to roll back laws aimed at crushing their livelihoods. The measures passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government would end state-guaranteed minimum prices…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor Jan. 20. “An enormous machine for grinding people up,” is how Cuban revolutionary Ramón Labañino described the capitalist “justice” system. Labañino was one of the Cuban 5, framed…
Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are meeting growing numbers of working people who are looking for ways to resist the impact of the capitalist crisis. Many are interested in discussing the SWP’s program for fighting to defend working-class…
NEW YORK — Rejecting the bosses’ paltry offer of a raise of just 32 cents an hour this year, 34 cents next year and 37 cents the year after, 1,400 members of Teamsters Local 202 at Hunts Point Produce Market…
Cory Johnson was pronounced dead after being executed Jan. 14, and Dustin John Higgs was killed two days later, at the federal death-row prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Their executions mean the U.S. government has put to death 13 federal…
Federal prosecutors, aided by bosses, liberal political groups and tech moguls, are aggressively pursuing charges — including seditious conspiracy — against a small group of individuals who pushed their way into the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 during a much larger…
As the social, political and moral crisis of capitalism continues to unfold, workers need to organize together to fight for our own class interests against the bosses and their government. We can stand up to their assaults on our jobs,…
NEW YORK — “The Indian government is unjustly supporting the large corporations, which will eventually lead to the downfall of small farmers,” Kulwinder Kaoner Singh told this Militant reporter at a Jan. 9 protest. Over 120 people attended to support…
NEW YORK — This past year “was an especially challenging and complex year for our country,” Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso, Cuba’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said at a Jan. 9 celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban…
