Supporters of the campaign of Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor, are planning two weeks of intensive campaigning Jan 12-26. “We’re going to go all over Texas,” George Chalmers, who is organizing the campaigning, said by phone…
U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing Jan. 7-9 for negotiations over the trade dispute between the rulers of the world’s first and second largest economies. These are the first announced talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi…
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Socialist Workers Party candidates and members are talking with working people in big cities, small towns and farming areas across the country. Everywhere they go they knock on doors and introduce the party, its program, the Militant …
All across Florida former prisoners lined up to register to vote Jan. 8 — some getting there more than an hour before offices opened — as constitutional Amendment 4 took effect. It passed overwhelmingly last November, by 64.6 percent. The…
LOS ANGELES — Daily preparations for a Jan. 14 strike by 34,000 teachers here have intensified as the United Teachers Los Angeles union reaches out for support from parents, students and fellow union members. Negotiations with the school board continue.…
The statement below was released Jan. 9 by Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Kentucky. Former prisoners in Florida proudly asserted their newly won rights by lining up to register to vote Jan. 8. Working people across…
In Defense of the US Working Class, a new book by Mary-Alice Waters, is being released in January. It features the talk by Waters at an international conference in Havana organized by the Cuban History Institute and the Central Organization…
Another one of the reflections of the capitalist rulers’ crisis today and how it weighs on working people is the significant increase in the number of workers ground up in the U.S. criminal “justice” system. A recent study by Cornell…
As part of the economic upturn in the U.S., more than 550,000 working people were homeless last year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. High rents and low wages account for what would seem to be a…
LONDON — Yellow vest protesters in France have responded to government arrests, attacks and slanders by taking to the streets. Some 50,000 marched throughout France Jan. 5, according to the interior ministry — almost twice as many as the Saturday…
