LONDON — Forty thousand members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union stopped work and joined picket lines around the country July 27. Workers — cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers, station staff and others — are fighting for an inflation-protected wage…
Still unable to stamp out resistance to its rule 17 months after they carried out a bloody coup, Myanmar’s military brass is stepping up repression, executing four political opponents July 23, the first use of the death penalty in more…
Ignoring opposition by a united labor movement, the Ukrainian parliament is taking advantage of Moscow’s invasion and martial law conditions, which ban strikes and protests, to pass anti-labor laws long sought by the country’s bosses. Crafted by the capitalist government…
In the largest sustained protests in decades, workers, students, members of Indigenous groups and others have taken to the streets in Panama demanding government action against rising food and fuel prices and joblessness, and opposing the propertied rulers’ indifference to…
LOS ANGELES — Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, spoke about opportunities to expand the reach of the party and its program to working people at a Militant Labor Forum here July 23. Also speaking was Phil…
August 11, 1997 NEW YORK — Fifty-seven workers from Mexico are being held incommunicado and under house arrest by New York City authorities and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The immigrants, including 12 children, were taken into custody following a…
A Miami jury found Argentine naval officer Roberto Guillermo Bravo liable July 1 for his role in what has become known as the Trelew Massacre, in a civil case brought by relatives of four of 19 political prisoners who were…
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Socialist Workers Party in Philadelphia completed a statewide campaigning effort to get out the party’s program and win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Campaigners collected 2,422 signatures,…
From Lenin to Stalin by Victor Serge is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Serge was a participant as history was made by the Russian Revolution and the Communist International. This excerpt is from his account of…
Sixty-nine years ago on July 26, Fidel Castro and 160 fellow revolutionaries carried out armed attacks on the Fulgencio Batista regime’s Moncada garrison in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrison in Bayamo, launching the war that…
