‘Amnesty for immigrants is in interest of all workers’

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

“The capitalists need to keep millions of immigrant workers here who are undocumented, so they can superexploit them,” Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 2016, told Richard Maya, a customer service worker as she was campaigning door…


Airline, auto bosses target workers to boost profits

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

As competition for markets among bosses in airline, auto and other industries continues to sharpen, company chiefs say they are looking to “cut labor costs,” targeting workers for concessions and weakening union rights. Contract talks opened in mid-July between the…


Democrats’ Mueller exposé falls flat as clashes in party sharpen

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

The political crisis wracking the Democratic Party has continued to deepen since former special counsel Robert Mueller delivered testimony before the House Judiciary Committee July 24 that revealed nothing new. The likelihood of liberals being able to overturn the 2016…


Joyce Meissenheimer was ‘on right side of history’

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019
Joyce Meissenheimer speaks at 1980 British Columbia New Democratic Party convention, wearing button defending Pratt Three, three women workers fired by Pratt & Whitney aerospace factory after Canadian rulers’ political police told bosses they were communists.

MONTREAL — “Joyce Meissenheimer had so much confidence that she and those she fought alongside were on the right side of history,” explained Communist League leader Beverly Bernardo at a July 20 celebration of the life of Meissenheimer, a 54-year…


Colonial rule, capitalist crisis fueled Puerto Rico protests

‘Cancel the debt! It’s their debt, not ours!’
Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

No matter who takes the place of Ricardo Rosselló as governor of the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico at 5 p.m. Aug. 2, the political, social and economic crisis there will continue. And so will opposition to the colonial regime’s…




25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

August 22, 1994 YORK, Pennsylvania — After 42 days on the picket line, members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Caterpillar pushed back a company-organized back-to-work campaign. Caterpillar is acting as the point man in the employers’ assault…


Cuban Revolution shows workers can win

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

Sixty-six years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada military barracks in Santiago, Cuba. The brutal regime of Fulgencio Batista had seized power, cancelled elections and arrested or murdered those who challenged his…


How capitalism is revolutionizing parts of Africa

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019
Workers in Equatorial Guinea at Chinese-run construction project march at Oct. 12, 2005, independence day parade in Evinayong. Growth of oil industry has expanded the capitalist class and above all, a working class that has growing self-confidence, pride and a widening scope.

The selection below is from Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The title is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The two authors visited the country in…