The birthrate in the U.S. declined to an average of 1.62 births per woman in 2023, the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s. The root causes are the squeeze on workers’ living standards and…
The Democrats’ frantic drive to get compliant judges to throw Donald Trump in jail before November’s election is bumping into some constitutional challenges. And millions of working people can see a presidential candidate is being charged for things that are…
Hamas’ international propaganda machine — promoted by middle-class leftists worldwide — keeps churning out lies that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, that people there are on the verge of starvation, that no women were raped by Hamas Oct. 7…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…
Amid the economic and political crisis of capitalism, accelerated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, conflicts and threats between regimes across Latin America have grown. This was highlighted in an…
Rachele Fruit speaks in Pittsburgh, East Palestine PITTSBURGH — “I’m very glad to be here in a region where the working class has been part of profound struggles,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, told a campaign…
Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters are finding wide interest in a working-class road forward as they campaign for Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for U.S. president. They are taking the party’s campaign and program to workers on their…
In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…
The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “We’ve been on strike going on nine weeks. We have a lot of union support, but we need more,” Rick Miedema, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 997 on strike at Molson Coors big brewery here, told Socialist…
