BALTIMORE — The extent of the social disaster for working people here caused by the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a result of the bosses’ dog-eat-dog drive for profits at all costs — is becoming…
The Dali, an ocean-going vessel carrying 4,679 loaded containers and weighing 123,881 tons, lost power and slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed at 1:29 a.m., just minutes after it sailed from the Port of Baltimore March 26.…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Several deadly wildfires ripped through the Texas Panhandle leaving more than 10,000 cattle dead and more than 1 million acres of land destroyed, threatening the livelihoods of thousands of working people. There are 4.1 million beef…
“There’s going to be a lot of finger pointing between the city government and the state and the electric company about who’s to blame for the fire,” Sergio Alcubilla, executive director of the Honolulu-based Hawaii Workers Center, told the Militant…
Two weeks after a fast-moving wildfire wiped out the city of Lahaina on Maui, evidence mounts that the culprit is decades of capitalist exploitation and oppression exacerbated by recent government decisions to prioritize spending money on fighting “climate change” over…
A rapidly moving wildfire rampaged across Lahaina, a historic town on Maui in Hawaii Aug. 8, laying waste to over 2,000 buildings, mainly residences, and causing the death of over 100 people to date, all but two unidentified, with more…
PAJARO, Calif. — There has been an outpouring of solidarity for workers whose homes were flooded here when a levee broke March 11. Some 200 volunteers turned out April 15 to help flood victims clean up mud, rip out water…
PAJARO, Calif. — On March 30, dozens of angry victims of flooding here, many of them farmworkers, marched down muddy and debris-covered streets in a protest demanding government aid and equal treatment for undocumented workers. Ramiro Medrano, who helped organize…
The course of the Turkish and Syrian governments, alongside intervention by Washington, Moscow, Tehran and others, is exacerbating the disastrous consequences of earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey Feb. 6. More than 45,000 people have died as of Feb. 17,…
Under capitalism, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters are turned into social catastrophes that fall in sharply different ways on different social classes. They strike workers and farmers with special ferocity. Countless lives are lost because bosses ignore basic safety…
