Former FBI boss Mueller’s probe blow to political rights

Vol. 83/No. 18 - May 6, 2019

Former FBI boss Robert Mueller’s report on his conclusions from his inquiry into the sham claims of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government was released April 18. It amounts to yet one more political effort…



Washington’s sanctions on North Korea fall on toilers

Vol. 83/No. 18 - May 6, 2019

The Socialist Workers Party stands “in solidarity with the decades-long struggle to reunify Korea, which Washington, in collusion with Moscow, brutally partitioned following World War II,” Steve Clark said in a letter to the North Korean government on behalf of…


Washington steps up economic war against Cuban Revolution

Vol. 83/No. 18 - May 6, 2019

The White House April 17 announced new sanctions in Washington’s decadeslong economic war against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution. The government imposed Title III of the reactionary 1996 anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Law, which allows U.S. citizens to sue in…



Legislators in Texas push to make every abortion illegal

Vol. 83/No. 17 - April 29, 2019

The Texas state legislative Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee held unprecedented public hearings April 8-9 on a proposed bill to authorize criminal prosecution of all women who have an abortion and of the doctors who perform them. All abortions would…


Protesters in Sudan say: ‘The regime must fall!’

Vol. 83/No. 17 - April 29, 2019

Massive crowds continue to sit in and protest at the presidential palace in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, determined to eradicate all remnants of military rule after the army brass ousted and arrested President Omar al-Bashir. The powerful breadth of the mobilizations…



Fight against ban on Washington prisoners getting used books wins

Vol. 83/No. 17 - April 29, 2019

SEATTLE — After a public outcry, the Washington state Department of Corrections reversed severe restrictions they had adopted that blocked prisoners from receiving almost all used books. The ban, quietly posted on the department’s website, said that effective March 25…


Cuban Revolution ‘put workers in the best position to take on racism’

Vol. 83/No. 17 - April 29, 2019

CHICAGO — The advances made by the Cuban Revolution in combating racial discrimination inherited from a legacy of slavery, colonialism and capitalism there; and the continuing challenges to meet and overcome remaining racial prejudice and inequality were discussed and debated…