Prisoners’ rights the civil rights of our era! There’s an article in the Nov. 12 issue about the ‘SWP: Push back limits on franchise! Restore voting rights to ex-prisoners!’ that I really enjoyed reading about and hope to see more…
December 6, 1993 Some 480 soda ash miners fought off a union-busting probe by General Chemical Co. at its southwest Wyoming mine. During the course of their four-month strike, members of United Steelworkers of America Local 15320 stood up to…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Thirty workers at Sistema Plastics, members of the E Tu union, held a protest at the factory entrance Oct. 26 against the bosses’ stalling on a better contract. The union’s membership at the factory has grown…
The latest round of fighting between Hamas, the reactionary Islamist ruling party in Gaza, and the Israeli government showed that neither side wants a full-scale war. Despite an intense barrage of rocket and mortar attacks from the Gaza Strip on…
SAN FRANCISCO — “All day, all night! Local 2 is on strike!” and “Sign a contract like you should!” chants filled the smoky air here Nov. 18 as UNITE HERE members continued their seven-week strike against seven downtown Marriott hotels.…
Below is an excerpt from Malcolm X Talks to Young People, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. This speech, titled “See for Yourself, Listen for Yourself, Think for Yourself,” was given to high-school-age youth from McComb, Mississippi,…
“Music is my life. It’s amazing to hear it in Mosul again,” musician Fadhel al-Badri told Reuters Oct. 27. He was attending a symphony performance, the first concert in that Iraqi city since the expulsion of Islamic State last year.…
ANKAWA, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — On July 17, 2014, a month after Islamic State’s conquest of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, the terrorist organization ordered “the Evacuation of Christians from the borders of the State of Caliphate no later that…
