OAKLAND, Calif. — When nurses and other health care workers organized a one-day strike at 15 Sutter Health facilities across Northern California April 18, part of their nearly yearlong fight for a new contract, hospital bosses locked out the 8,000…
Moscow’s war against Ukrainian independence has opened rifts with the former Soviet republics in Central Asia whose governments have traditionally followed the Russian rulers’ lead. The capitalist rulers in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — bounded by Russia, China,…
Below is a selection from New International no. 7, which features the article “Washington’s Assault on Iraq: The Opening Guns of World War III,” published just after the first Gulf War. Copyright © 1991 by New International. Reprinted by permission. …
The Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) is inviting workers around the world to the million-strong May Day parade in Havana — which celebrates International Workers Day and puts on display the determination of Cuban workers to defend their socialist…
NEW YORK — Nov. 30 and Dec. 8, 2021, marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi execution by firing squad of 25,000 Jews in the Rumbula Forest outside Riga, Latvia. It was the beginning of the Holocaust in that Baltic…
To mark the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X on Feb. 21, 1965, this week’s Books of the Month page features Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…
LONDON — In a bloody assault against the struggle for civil rights and Irish independence, the British Army’s paratroop regiment on Jan. 30, 1972, gunned down protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen were killed and many more injured. Fifty years…
“All working people should get vaccinated, including getting booster shots. This is in the interests of strengthening the unity and fighting capacity of the working class,” said John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Jan. 5. “Our unions must…
One of the central tasks taken on by the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was to organize determined steps toward women’s equality and ability to participate fully in society as part of advancing the revolution. Below…
For those around the world who want to unite working people to advance our class interests and to end the second-class status of women, there is much to learn from the experience of Cuba’s socialist revolution. From the very beginning,…
