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Comrade Sanzeed Hossein, member of the leadership of the Democratic Workers Party of Bangladesh, gave an interview to Informations Ouvrières [Labor News] in France on the question of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, in the suburbs of Dacca, capital of Bangladesh. At the time of the interview, the total number of [...]

A press conference was called in Algiers on May 1st by the PT (Workers’ Party). The PT’s General Secretary, Louisa Hanoune, denounced the threats of foreign intervention against Algeria. “We have not called this conference press to talk about the current situation in the country — such as, for example, Algeria’s entry into the WTO, [...]

In recent months, Peabody Coal Co. has been the subject of large militant protests by both environmentalists and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Union. Peabody, the world’s largest and most prosperous coal energy company, has its world headquarters in a shining big skyscraper in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. A few decades ago, coal [...]

Earlier this month, on April 11-12, a great number of students, teachers and staff walked out of class at Indiana University(IU). These actions were centered mostly at IU Bloomington, but there was smaller support from satellite campuses at South Bend, Indianapolis and Indiana University Southeast in New Albany. The strike had been planned since December, [...]

On April 10 President Barack Obama announced his budget for 2014, which includes proposals for $230 billion in cuts to Social Security and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. The budget’s total “savings,” Obama said, are necessary to reduce the nation’s deficit. This was the first time that a Democratic [...]

Maggie Sager, a junior Middle Eastern Studies major at UC Berkeley, is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as Socialist Organizer. She is a transfer student from City College of San Francisco. [A photo of a shadowed person holding a megaphone with Sather Tower in the background] Can you spell [...]

  After the victory of the Chavista candidate, Nicolás Maduro, in the Venezuelan presidential election on April 14, serious provocations have been unleashed by the pro-imperialist opposition forces with the aim of instigating an institutional crisis that could open the way to annulling the sovereign will of the people. A few hours after the announcement [...]

Presentation Nicolás Maduro is the winner of the election that took place on April 14, succeeding Hugo Chávez as Venezuela’s president. This election was immediately challenged by U.S. imperialism and its candidate Henrique Capriles, who during his campaign did not hesitate to call on sectors of the military to organize a coup and cancel the [...]

A compromise reached at the end of March 2013 by the “Gang of Eight” — a bipartisan group of Senators working on “immigration reform” — would create a new “W-visa” program, slated to begin in 2015. Immigrants who work in lesser-skilled non-agricultural jobs, such as janitors, retail, construction workers and hospitality employees would be eligible [...]

Our class enemies are in the habit of complaining about our terrorism. What they mean by this is rather unclear. They would like to label all the activities of the proletariat directed against the class enemy’s interests as terrorism. The strike, in their eyes, is the principal method of terrorism. The threat of a strike, [...]