MONTREAL — Long-haul truckers in Canada — both owner-operators and company drivers — face a series of attacks today from shippers, truck bosses, federal and provincial government agencies and from skyrocketing fuel costs. They’ve filed more than 4,800 complaints with…
Moscow is using the German capitalist rulers’ deepening dependence on Russian natural gas to squeeze them to stand aside as Moscow advances its interests in Europe and against Ukraine. The Russian rulers’ military encirclement of Ukraine threatens Ukrainian independence and…
NEW YORK — More than 100 Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride and food-delivery workers and their supporters from New York City and Long Island rallied here Feb. 1 demanding higher pay, better working conditions, an end to arbitrary employer…
Over a dozen masked unsanctioned settlers in the West Bank attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and their supporters from Israel Jan. 21 as they were planting trees by the village of Burin, south of Nablus. The attackers used clubs…
February 24, 1997 For the past 25 years the Socialist Workers Party has waged a fight to function in politics free from harassment by government and right-wing organizations and individuals. A Federal Elections Commission ruling exempting the party from reporting…
The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon, a founding leader of the SWP, was framed up in 1941 and imprisoned…
LONDON — In a bloody assault against the struggle for civil rights and Irish independence, the British Army’s paratroop regiment on Jan. 30, 1972, gunned down protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen were killed and many more injured. Fifty years…
SCUNTHORPE, England — “Support has been great, from all over the U.K. and Ireland,” Unite union steward Dave Birchall told the Militant outside the British Steel plant that dominates this town Jan. 28. He is one of 60 striking scaffolders…
Thousands of teachers, many of them women, held protests and strikes across Iran Jan. 31 — including outside the parliament in Tehran — calling for higher pay and pensions and opposing increasing moves to charge for public education. The semiofficial…
