Thousands of protesters occupying the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe handed the buildings back to the government July 14 after Rajapaksa fled to Singapore and resigned. The occupation of the…
The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky. It describes how the Russian Revolution set out to create conditions to advance the fight for the emancipation of women and how this course was set back by…
SWP members in Atlanta met graduate student Wyatt Madden at a June 26 protest against the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. He told party member Susan LaMont he was concerned with the direction of U.S. politics after the…
NEWARK, N.J. — The 350 nurses and technicians at St. Michael’s Medical Center here, members of JNESO Council 1 International Union of Operating Engineers, struck May 23 for a decent contract. “During negotiations, management has demonstrated a lack of willingness…
Public anger exploded in Sri Lanka May 9 after several hundred supporters of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, many armed with iron bars, attacked peaceful protesters camped out in Colombo, the country’s capital. Police did little to stop the attack that…
DINUBA, Calif. — On May 4 Socialist Workers Party members Carole Lesnick and Joel Britton, the party’s candidate for governor, joined Fresno farmer Will Scott for a visit to Sweet Home Ranch, near here, where Paul Buxman raises peaches and…
LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…
Tens of thousands of Cuban workers and youth will attend the 30th Havana International Book Fair April 20-30, looking for literature and discussion on culture and politics, science, literature of the world, children’s books and more. Since Cuba’s workers and…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Students in the Indian state of Karnataka have mounted protests after the state’s high court March 15 upheld a government ban on young women wearing headscarves in schools and colleges. Muslim students from several parts of…
MONTREAL — A major cross-country lockout and strike battle broke out March 20 involving 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway engineers, conductors and yard workers, members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union. Two days later the parties agreed to submit their…
