The May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling signed by Justice Samuel Alito overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has set off a debate across the country. The leak was met with a hysterical response from the…
TORONTO — Over 1,500 dump truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area ended their six-week strike May 1, when they reached agreement with area bosses to set a standard hourly rate of 120 Canadian dollars ($93) an hour for bulk…
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Five days after 5,000 nurses, members of the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement, struck the Stanford Health Care system — based at Stanford University in Palo Alto — they voted by an 83% majority to approve…
May 26, 1997 HAVANA, Cuba — “Where did you serve on your first mission as an internationalist?” Cuban journalist Luis Báez asks Ulises Rosales del Toro, division general of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and chief of staff of the…
Below is an excerpt from Fighting Racism in World War II: From the Pages of the ‘Militant,’ one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It provides a week-by-week account of struggles against discrimination and lynch-mob terror from 1939…
HAVANA — As rescue brigades arrived rapidly at the scene of a deadly gas explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, dozens of local residents had already joined in aiding and evacuating others to safety amid the billowing smoke and dust. Forty-two…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — More than 1,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job May 2 at two Case New Holland plants. The 430 members of UAW Local 807 in Burlington, Iowa, and 600 Local 180 members here,…
In recent weeks U.S. bosses have been posting record profits, 35% above the year before. “The numbers are in” an article in Bloomberg boasts, “2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950.” While working people struggle to…
Over 15,000 Ontario construction workers went on strike May 1, paralyzing the high- and low-rise home-building industry across the Canadian province. The central issue is the need for adequate wage increases to deal with the impact of skyrocketing inflation on…
