DELTA, British Columbia — Over 150 day-shift workers, members of International Association of Machinists Local 11, walked off the job Aug. 1 to protest Avcorp’s concession demands. These include attacks on seniority rights and vacations, contracting out jobs, and no…
PASIG CITY, Philippines — About 100 workers, mainly contract employees, have been on strike at ZAGU, a major Filipino beverage company here, since June 6. Through their union, the Organization of ZAGU Workers, they are fighting to be hired as…
September 5, 1994 DUBLIN — “Twenty-five years — time for peace, time to go” was the slogan of a march here August 20 marking the 25th anniversary of the deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland. Several…
The following statement was released Aug. 21 by Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Kentucky. As workers learn about the unfolding fight of coal miners standing up to Blackjewel and the capitalist profit-seekers looking to take over…
August 29, 1994 The U.S. government’s failure to defend a woman’s right to choose abortion is feeding a polarization on the issue. Rightist assaults on abortion rights are meeting resistance from youth and other defenders of women’s rights. Clinic defenders…
Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, fought to continue the communist course of V.I. Lenin after his death, in the face of…
Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president in 2016; Seth Galinsky, the SWP candidate for New York City public advocate; and Linda Joyce from Atlanta are heading to Puerto Rico Aug. 15 for five days to bring…
Ending — for the moment — the immediate political crisis in Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez took the oath of office Aug. 7 as governor of the U.S. colony following weeks of protests that forced the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló. But…
In the worst ever Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some 1,800 have died and at least 2,700 people have been infected with the disease in the past year. The spread of the outbreak is exacerbated…
According to acting Department of Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella, July’s official unemployment rate of 3.7% “demonstrates the steady and consistent growth of the American economy.” But for millions of working people facing low-wage jobs, many at part-time hours; layoffs; and…
