Like previous climate conferences, this year’s United Nations summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has been marked by panicked claims that “time is running out” and empty promises by heads of state to reduce greenhouse gases. The end result? More hot air…
NEW YORK — Yellow cab drivers organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance have been on a hunger strike here since Oct. 20. Their camp near City Hall takes up half the public sidewalk on Broadway, draped with banners,…
“The U.S. capitalist rulers and their government should be compelled to rapidly expand the production and distribution of enough vaccines to immunize billions of working people around the world against COVID-19,” Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of…
As he moves to tighten state control over the Chinese economy, President Xi Jinping is portraying his regime and its policies as the continuation of the teachings of Mao Zedong. Mao commanded the Stalinized Chinese Communist Party, from the late…
BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of the Cuban foreign ministry’s department for U.S. affairs, was in New York at the end of September for the opening session of the…
Over the past year the Chinese regime of President Xi Jinping has launched a drive to curb the financial clout of some private capitalists and tighten its grip over the state capitalist economy. Xi increasingly presents his policies as the…
(For a French version of this article, click here.) Blaise Compaore, the iron-fisted ruler of Burkina Faso for almost three decades, will stand trial along with 13 others before a military tribunal Oct. 11 for the 1987 assassination of former…
LOS ANGELES — “We urged workers and farmers to ignore the first question on the ballot — whether Gov. Gavin Newsom is recalled or not, but to cast a vote for the Socialist Workers Party on the second ballot question,”…
On Sept. 7 President Joseph Biden signed off on extending the U.S. embargo of Cuba for another year under the capitalist rulers’ Trading With the Enemy Act. This is no surprise since every president — Democrat and Republican alike —…
Car and bike caravans along with pickets and rallies protesting Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war against Cuba’s socialist revolution took place in at least half a dozen U.S. cities, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and other…
