Nurses strike in Denmark broken by state intervention

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021

After 10 weeks on the picket line, and with the number of strikers growing, thousands of nurses in Denmark were ordered back to work by the government. The workers, members of the Danish Nurses Union, walked off the job June…


Protests demand: End US embargo of Cuba!

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021
Caravans, rallies and meetings took place in U.S., Canada, U.K. and elsewhere Aug. 29, protesting Washington’s economic war against Cuba. Above, protesters at Toussaint L’Ouverture park in Miami donated to Haiti earthquake relief.

Car and bike caravans along with pickets and rallies protesting Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war against Cuba’s socialist revolution took place in at least half a dozen U.S. cities, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and other…


Building a proletarian party on the eve of imperialist war

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021
Sit-down strike in 1937 by United Auto Workers at General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan. When political pressures came down on the Socialist Workers Party on eve of the second imperialist world war, James P. Cannon led the fight to deepen the party’s proletarian orientation.

This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. A companion volume to In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky, it records the fight in the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021

September 23, 1996 Picket lines, demonstrations and educational meetings are needed now to protest the Clinton administration’s escalating war moves against Iraq. The rulers of the United States — loyally represented by the Democratic White House and the Republican-led Congress…


Quebec ferry workers strike for pay, jobs, time off

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021

SOREL, Quebec — Hundreds of ferry workers went on strike at five Saint Lawrence River crossings in Quebec on the Labour Day weekend. From here, northeast of Montreal, to Matane near the Atlantic coast, members of the United Steelworkers and …


Texas execution set, sentiment against death penalty grows

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Protest in Texas against death penalty and execution of Rodney Reed in 2019. Reed, who has been on death row more than 23 years, and John Ramirez, who is scheduled to be executed Sept. 8, are two of the 198 prisoners on Texas death row, and of some 2,550 across the country.

John Henry Ramirez is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville Sept. 8, the third execution there this year. Ramirez filed a federal suit Aug. 10 after prison officials denied his request to…


Canada: Communist League files for ballot in Montreal

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

MONTREAL — In a concentrated 10-day effort to introduce the Communist League campaign to working people here and gather the electors needed to place Michel Prairie, left, the CL candidate in the Bourassa constituency, on the ballot in the Sept.…


Los Angeles rally protests Myanmar dictatorship

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Several dozen people rallied in front of the Myanmar Consulate here Aug. 21, the 36th rally in Los Angeles County since the military seized power Feb. 1 and moved to crush a wave of mass demonstrations and…


Protest Washington’s economic war on Cuban Revolution

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
July 25 rally after car caravan in Montreal against U.S. embargo of Cuba. The monthly actions demand end to Washington’s more than 60-year push to destroy Cuba’s socialist revolution.

Car and bike caravans, pickets and rallies to protest Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba are planned Aug. 29 in a half dozen U.S. cities as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries. Some will…


Join Labor Day actions, build solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Aug. 25. Marches, rallies and other actions planned by the labor movement around the country on or around Sept. 6 to mark Labor Day are an excellent opportunity…