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A group of pensioners chanted, “Cutting back on health care is a criminal act,” during the demonstration in Madrid in defense of public health care. These six words sum up the feelings of hundreds of […]

Filipinos and their supporters protested the Pentagon’s war buildup in the Philippines on Feb. 11 in New York City. People rallied at the Times Square military recruiting station on a busy Saturday night in the […]

February 11 — Yesterday, the U.S. airforce shot down another weather balloon: The Pentagon said it shot down an unidentified object over frozen waters around Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, less than […]

Demonstrations in a record number of towns – over 260 – took place last Saturday, 11 February. This was the fourth day of action to defend pensions in France, as the Pensions Bill begins its month […]

German working class supported socialism. How did the Nazis crush them? Ninety years ago, on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. A dozen years of hell followed, with tens of millions […]

ILWU attends South African Conference commemorating the 1973 Durban strikes Representatives from the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered with union leaders from Namibia and South Africa at a Jan. 26 – 28, 2023, […]

February 9 — The death toll from the unprecedented scale of the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Turkey and Syria is now over 23,000. As of this writing, almost 70,000 people have been injured, and some […]