Some 900 Rio Tinto aluminum workers in Kitimat, British Columbia, members of Unifor Local 2301, set up picket lines July 25 after their contract expired. The strike followed seven weeks of fruitless negotiations and a 100% strike vote. The strikers…
BARNOLDSWICK, England — Seventeen maintenance engineers who are members of the Unite union at Rolls-Royce’s jet-engine plant here have restarted strike action. The bosses have been dragging their heels in implementing a deal with the union to secure jobs through…
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes said, pointing to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter. From the end of the Civil War until her death in 1930 at age 100, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones tirelessly…
Six months after ousting the elected government, seizing total power and putting down mass protests, the military junta in Myanmar announced Aug. 1 it was extending its state of emergency for two more years. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of…
SEATTLE — Cecelia Moriarity, a 45-year member of the Socialist Workers Party, died here July 23 after a prolonged illness. Moriarity built the party in cities across the country and served on the party’s National Committee for a number of…
The U.S. capitalist ruling families will never forgive working people in Cuba for their 1959 revolution that overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista, who ensured superprofits for U.S. bosses and bankers. Led by Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement, Cuban toilers…
Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 27. He was one of three Chinese Cuban generals interviewed in the book Our History Is Still Being Written, published by Pathfinder Press. The book…
Protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime spread from Khuzestan province, home to the country’s Arab minority, to cities and towns elsewhere in mid-July. Triggered by severe water shortages and power outages that hit hard on working people, demonstrators protested the Iranian…
NEW YORK — Several hundred members of the United Mine Workers union rallied and picketed outside the offices of BlackRock here July 28 to support striking miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama. BlackRock is the largest hedge fund…
