BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Striking Teamsters at the ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages bottling and distribution plant here agreed to a new contract Jan. 14 after more than six weeks walking the picket line. Teamsters Local 773 members — 77 drivers, service and…
CARSON, Calif. — More than 100 members of United Steelworkers Local 675 picketed outside Marathon’s Carson oil refinery here early in the morning Jan. 12, the day before national negotiations began between the union and Marathon Petroleum bosses. The current…
Over 150 people joined a Jan. 15 rally outside the White House organized by Free Kazakhs in solidarity with popular strikes and protests demanding political and social rights against the dictatorial government in Kazakhstan. The capitalist rulers there have ruled…
A 12-hour general strike by truckers, public transportation workers and other unionists shut Lebanon down Jan. 13. Thousands of drivers and transport workers closed the country’s major highways, as well as roads inside cities and towns, where taxi and truck…
“Israel was born as a Jewish state. And that was the decision of the Jewish people,” Mansour Abbas, a leader of Ra’am — the United Arab List party — and member of Israel’s Knesset, told the press Dec. 21. “It…
Volunteers working to get Pathfinder books into libraries and bookstores across North America are reporting increased interest in the wide range of revolutionary literature the publisher produces, including books by revolutionary leaders like Fidel Castro, Thomas Sankara, leaders of the…
Striking sanitation workers, members of Teamsters Local 542, voted 137-70 to accept an improved contract offer by Republic Services bosses, ending their four-week strike. The strikers held firm, winning growing support from area workers and some in the city government,…
The Spanish Revolution (1931-39) by Leon Trotsky, a leader of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of Pathfinder’s books of the month for January. After the death of V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, the revolutionary…
February 3, 1997 All those who support women’s rights and democratic rights should be in the streets and in front of the clinics in response to the bombings of abortion facilities in Atlanta and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Protests and meetings are…
