Latin America: Thousands march for abortion rights

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Carrying banners reading “Legal abortion now” and “Our right to decide” in a sea of green shirts and bandanas, thousands of women and their supporters demonstrated for women’s right to decide whether to have an abortion Sept. 28 in Ecuador,…


Texas ExxonMobil strikers are fighting for all oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…


Back Heaven Hill distillery workers strike in Kentucky!

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 420 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D members are going into a fourth week of a strike against Heaven Hill Brands distillery bosses. Kentucky is the heart of the U.S. bourbon industry, and Heaven Hill…


Thousands rally to defend women’s right to abortion

Continuing fight needed to win decisive support
Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
San Jose march, one of 660 actions Oct. 2 against attacks on women’s right to abortion. “We have to be more willing to debate, express our opinion and stand up for it,” said Jessica Hoag at Philadelphia march.

Tens of thousands marched for women’s right to choose abortion Oct. 2 in some 660 demonstrations in cities and towns, large and small, across the U.S. and some internationally. The rallies were called by Women’s March, and coordinated with more…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

October 21, 1996 TORONTO — The last of the 26,000 General Motors Corp. unionized workers in Canada walked off their jobs the evening of October 9. With Canadian Auto Workers members now walking the picket lines at plants in Woodstock,…


Imprisoned revolutionaries fight Stalinist rule in USSR in 1950s

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
1928 protest at exile colony in Siberia, Russia. Center banner with portraits of V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky says, “Long live dictatorship of proletariat.” Fight against Stalinist bureaucracy was to reestablish proletarian internationalism of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution under Lenin.

Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union, from the late 1920s to the 1970s, challenging the anti-working-class Stalinist regime and its repression.…


Embracing Mao, Chinese rulers continue assault on working people

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
Red Guards, instigated by Mao Zedong, in poster on right, publicly humiliate official during 1966-76 anti-working-class Cultural Revolution in China. Fidel Castro said Mao and the Chinese Communist Party’s counterrevolutionary policies led Beijing to an alliance with U.S. imperialism and “brutal attacks” against the heroic peoples of Vietnam, Angola and Cuba.

Over the past year the Chinese regime of President Xi Jinping has launched a drive to curb the financial clout of some private capitalists and tighten its grip over the state capitalist economy. Xi increasingly presents his policies as the…


Delivery workers score victory over temp contracts, ‘freelancing’

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

ATHENS, Greece — Delivery workers for the company efood, a subsidiary here of the international company Delivery Hero, won permanent contracts after strike action and a large protest. The two unions at the app-based company — the Rank-and-File Assembly of…


Staffing, bad conditions key in Buffalo Mercy hospital strike

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
Strikers at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, face off against van carrying strikebreakers. Some 2,000 union members struck Oct. 1 over staffing shortages, unsafe working conditions.

About 2,000 nurses, X-ray technicians and medical support workers who belong to Communications Workers of America Local 1133 went on strike at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 1. Hundreds massed outside cheered as fellow workers on duty streamed…