After working for nearly three years under an expired contract on the nation’s Class 1 freight rail lines, 23,000 engineers received strike ballots from their union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. But this doesn’t mean a strike is…
MONTREAL — The National Assembly of Quebec adopted Law 96 on May 24, declaring French the province’s official common language and enforcing its use. Under the pretext of combating the “declining use of French,” the bill restricts the use of…
LONDON — In the first national strike here by an industrial union in decades, 40,000 rail workers stopped work for three days last week. Striking members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union included station, signal, maintenance and track workers,…
Women and the Cuban Revolution, which includes speeches and documents by Fidel Castro, Vilma Espín and others, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The excerpt below is from “The Revolution Within the Revolution,” a December 1966…
“I was born in 1995,” Luke Winnicki told Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, June 26 in south Philadelphia. “My first memory was Sept. 11, 2001, then there was the 2008 financial crash. My family survived but…
July 14, 1997 STOCKHOLM — The June European Union summit highlighted the competing interests and divisions among the imperialist governments in Europe. The heads of state gathered failed to reach an agreement on voting procedures that was supposed to pave…
UNITED NATIONS — “U.S. laws dealing with Puerto Rico have one purpose — to perpetuate the colony,” said Richard López, speaking for the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was one of two dozen pro-independence petitioners at the annual hearing of…
MANCHESTER, England — “We’re learning we can use union power,” Rail, Maritime and Transport Union activist Pete Clifford told a rally in solidarity with striking rail workers here June 25. Clifford had returned to work June 14 after a union…
Facing a spreading economic crisis and soaring inflation, especially in things workers need, the U.S. rulers have launched steps that will fuel a deeper downturn in production and jobs. In a model of understatement, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell told…
