LONDON — In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war as it drove to overturn the Cuban Revolution. Meetings in Manchester and London marked the 60th anniversary of what has become known as the Cuban…
After being fired on Oct. 5, a pregnant UPS worker committed suicide in the company’s huge Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky, the world’s largest automated package sorting facility. Twenty thousand workers, many of whom are members of Teamsters Local 89,…
Below is an excerpt from an April 2018 article on the social and political roots of protests by workers and youth that swept 90 cities and small towns across Iran. It points to an article that had appeared in the…
NEW YORK — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla spoke at the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 21, condemning the “ruthless and unilateral economic, commercial and financial blockade” of his country imposed by the United States government for more than…
OAKLAND, Calif. — People driving past honked in support as mental health workers on strike against health care giant Kaiser Permanente in Northern California rallied in front of the company’s headquarters here Sept. 23. More than 2,000 therapists, psychologists and…
Sali Hafiz, right, at May 23 protest in Beirut, instantly became a folk hero across Lebanon after she entered a bank Sept. 14 with a fake gun and demanded $20,000 of her own money. Earlier the bank denied her request…
Thousands of people have rallied in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, and across the country Sept. 6 and since, demanding the government reverse a 30% jump in fuel prices it imposed amid soaring inflation in this country of 270 million people.…
HOUSTON — The deepening economic attacks on working people and how to win people to the fight for women’s emancipation were discussed by hundreds from across the country participating in a national Women’s Convention here Aug. 12-14. The event was…
Albert Woodfox, a former Black Panther who emerged from nearly 44 years in solitary confinement as still a determined political fighter, died Aug. 4. He was 75. Released from jail in 2016, Woodfox published a book, Solitary: My Story of…
The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today — rising prices combined with a downturn in manufacturing production — is heightening conflicts among rival powers that comprise the European Union and sharpening the strains tearing at the bloc of 27 governments. The…
