Vol. 80/No. 17      May 2, 2016

News articles

• Verizon strikers: Time to say no to concessions!
  Stand in solidarity with 40,000 strikers
• ‘Workers need our own party, a labor party’
• New decline looms within worldwide capitalist crisis
• Socialist Workers Party joins labor struggles, goes for ballot
• Rivalry of Saudi, Iranian rulers grows as Mideast alliances shift
• ‘We carried out a duty that is true to the moral values of Cuban Revolution’
  Book describes Cuban internationalists’ decisive role in fighting Ebola in West Africa
• ‘Motivated by solidarity, not material interest’
• US, Puerto Rican gov’ts squeeze workers for debt
• Teamsters hold DC rally to demand halt to pension cuts
• Protests across country demand $15/hour and union
• Nebraska: ‘We called our own action to support abortion rights’
• Reporter’s notebook: SWP candidates on campaign trail
• Union recycling workers in Calif. support Washington farmworkers
• Junior doctors in England strike against understaffing, pay cuts