Mood of gloom and doom pervades the ‘globalists’ at the Davos summit

Vol. 87/No. 5 - February 6, 2023

A mood of doom and gloom hovered over the gathering of some 2,700 bosses, bankers, speculators, government officials and meritocratic hangers-on at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16-20. Underlying their despondency is the sharpening political and social…


Capitalist rulers in Europe mask depth of rising prices

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Thousands demonstrate in Paris Jan. 7 demanding higher wages to cover soaring prices and to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to increase retirement age beyond 62 years.

The big-business media is hailing the slight drop in inflation rates in Europe last month as a sign that the capitalist rulers are getting price rises under control. But this masks the intolerable impact that decades-high levels continue to have…


Workers in Europe strike, protest for raises to cover inflation

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
In Bulgaria, thousands of protesters, organized by country’s two largest unions, rallied in Sofia Nov. 11, demand raises to combat inflation. Sign says, “Inflation is rising, our wages are not.”

Rising prices on basic necessities like food, fuel and housing worldwide have hit working people hard, leading to strikes and other protest actions in countries across Europe this week. Thousands took to the streets in France Nov. 10 to demand…



Working people worldwide look to fight effects of rising prices

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Demonstration during Friday prayers in Taiz, Yemen, June 4, protesting devastating impact of inflation, deterioration of government social services and widespread official corruption.

Food prices and the cost of other necessities for working people are soaring worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for workers to join together to fight for jobs, higher wages and automatic cost-of-living adjustments on our wages and retirement pay. Millions…


Workers fight bosses, gov’t attacks as crisis unfolds

Vol. 84/No. 25 - June 29, 2020

Important vanguard struggles are taking place around the world by workers fighting against efforts by the bosses to expand production and profits on our backs. From strikes by fruit packers in the Yakima Valley in Washington state, to textile workers…


Demand jobs! Back fights over wages, job conditions!

Support workers’ resistance against bosses, their gov’t
Vol. 84/No. 21 - June 1, 2020
May 14 strike picket at Columbia Reach Pack fruit processing in Yakima, Washington. Workers at 6 plants are demanding 40-hour workweek, clean water, wage increase and job safety.

Workplace skirmishes, strikes, public protests and other resistance by workers and farmers are growing to challenge attacks today by bosses and their government on our jobs, wages and working conditions.  They have imposed crippling lockdowns on jobs and production, laying…


Fight for jobs! Act now to protect wages, conditions

Protests spread against attacks by bosses, gov’t
Vol. 84/No. 20 - May 25, 2020
New Orleans “hoppers,” workers who jump on and off sanitation trucks to collect garbage, went on strike May 5, protesting unsafe conditions, long hours and low wages.

Every day brings new evidence of the depth of the social crisis being visited on hundreds of millions of workers, farmers and small proprietors in the U.S. and around the world, a growing calamity not of their making. Working people,…


Demand jobs! Join workers fights over wages, conditions

Workers’ protests take on impact of capitalist crisis
Vol. 84/No. 19 - May 18, 2020
Driver Jose Gonzalez addresses fellow independent truckers in Fontana, California, during protest against brokers driving down their wages and anti-worker government regulations.

Hundreds of millions of working people are being thrown out of their jobs to face the dire consequences of government-mandated economic shutdowns — mounting depression conditions not seen for almost a century.  These are the consequence not of a disease,…


Fight for jobs! Organize to defend wages, job safety!

Workers main problem today is capitalism, not ‘the virus’
Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020
Factory, textile and garment workers demonstrate in Karachi, Pakistan, April 18, demanding end to firings by bosses, for payment of wages for workers at plants that are shut down.

Tens of millions of working people in the U.S. and many millions worldwide have been thrown out of work through lockdowns imposed by capitalist governments, shutting factories, transportation, retail outlets, hotels, restaurants and more. The key problem facing workers today…