NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke at the United Nations and a wide range of meetings during a week-long visit here starting Sept. 17. He called for ending the U.S. economic war on Cuba and for Cuba’s removal…
NEW YORK — “Fight for jobs for all workers! Build the unions! A working-class response to the ‘migration crisis’” was the topic of a lively discussion at the Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 16. Speaking for the Socialist Workers Party…
ATLANTA — Just weeks after former President Donald Trump and 18 of his political associates were indicted here on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization charges, 61 opponents of the construction of an Atlanta police- and firefighting-training facility were charged with…
Since Aug. 7, more than 800 prisoners in Bahrain have been conducting that country’s largest-ever hunger strike, protesting intolerable conditions, including systematic mistreatment, medical neglect and limited visitation. Their actions have inspired street protests led by prisoners’ families, above, calling…
Minutes after Ali Bongo Ondimba was reelected to a third term as president of Gabon Aug. 30, a coup led by Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, head of the country’s central security forces, overthrew the government. Ali Bongo became president in…
Whichever candidate wins the presidential election in Argentina in October will only mean more hardships for working people. In the midst of the deep capitalist crisis shaking the country, the solutions offered by all the capitalist politicians foreshadow belt-tightening measures,…
NEW YORK — “I was part of the revolution and it’s important to remember,” Angela Gabriel told Socialist Workers Party member Willie Cotton who was helping to staff the Pathfinder book booth at this year’s Grenada Day Festival in Brooklyn…
NEW YORK — “Stop Putin! Stop war!” “We stand with Ukraine!” and “Free Navalny! Free political prisoners! Free Russia!” chanted over 300 demonstrators, mainly recent Russian immigrants, here Aug. 20. The protest was organized by supporters of Alexei Navalny, a…
NEW YORK — With language virtually inviting government prosecutions and other punitive action, the New York Times published a front-page article Aug. 5 claiming that several organizations and individuals in the United States are part of “a financial network that…
Below is a statement issued Aug. 15 by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council District 48. Working people and all defenders of constitutional protections of free speech and assembly should oppose the campaign by the…
