Coal miners and family members spoke to SEP presidential candidate Jerry White about social conditions in southern West Virginia. The area, which was the center of the Mine Wars of the 1910s and 1920s against the dictatorial rule of coal bosses, has been hit hard by mine closures, chronic joblessness and a drug epidemic.
Crackdown on protesters in Turkey: police violence, torture allegations surface
As the wave of unlawful arrests and detentions launched by the government to suppress mass protests continues, videos and testimonies of brutal police violence and torture are emerging.
The crisis in Turkey and the fight for revolutionary leadership
As democracy in Turkey collapses under the pressure of the escalating imperialist war and growing social inequality, a revolutionary crisis with global dimensions is developing.
200 people jailed as mass protests continue in Turkey
As Erdoğan responds to the mass protests with a growing state crackdown, the CHP is seeking to end the movement and is appealing to its NATO allies.
Erdoğan tries to quell mass protests as 15 million turn out for CHP’s presidential primary
The fear driving the government to violently suppress the democratic demands of the masses is the possibility that protests led by students could mobilise the anger of the working class, which has been deepened by the rising cost of living and impoverishment.