“Israel was born as a Jewish state. And that was the decision of the Jewish people,” Mansour Abbas, a leader of Ra’am — the United Arab List party — and member of Israel’s Knesset, told the press Dec. 21. “It…
A 12-hour general strike by truckers, public transportation workers and other unionists shut Lebanon down Jan. 13. Thousands of drivers and transport workers closed the country’s major highways, as well as roads inside cities and towns, where taxi and truck…
MINNEAPOLIS — After a 24-day trial here, former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty Dec. 23 on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old African American Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last…
ARVADA, Colo. — Some 8,400 grocery store workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, went out on strike Jan. 12 at 87 stores in the region. They are fighting for better wages and working conditions, and against…
As they deepen their assaults on working people and political rights, the regimes in Moscow and Beijing are trying to silence political opponents by smearing them as “foreign agents.” Washington condemns these two rivals for repression, but has used the…
Below are excerpts from a speech given by Fidel Castro in Havana, Jan. 1, 1979, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and the opening of the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Castro…
The recent buildup of Russian forces along the border with Ukraine threatens that country’s sovereignty. Moscow seeks to reverse the Ukrainian rulers’ moves toward closer relations with imperialist governments in Europe and the U.S. and to advance its long-term goal…
In a closely followed and widely publicized trial, the facts marshaled there showed that 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was neither a white supremacist nor guilty of any crime when he defended himself from a mob in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The jury voted…
The U.S. capitalist rulers foresee a future of wars and revolutions, and have been taking bipartisan steps to prepare to defend and advance their weakened, but still dominant, place at the top of the imperialist world pecking order. Just in…
Forty people joined a Nov. 28 protest in Toronto, above, opposing the decadeslong U.S. government embargo against Cuba, picketing across the street from the U.S. Consulate. The action was part of monthly caravans and rallies initiated at the end of…
