CHICAGO — The Nov. 8 ballot in Illinois includes Amendment 1, a referendum to change the state constitution that many union and Democratic Party officials promote as a “Workers Bill of Rights.” In fact, it does nothing to advance workers’…
FRESNO, Calif. — “We’re going back with our heads up high!” strike stalwart Raul Hernandez told the Militant here after the 40 workers at Corn Nuts — members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 85 — voted…
Strikes by members of the Confederation Generale du Travail union (CGT) continue at two refineries owned by Total Energies in France Oct. 24. Workers at the Gonfreville and Feyzin refineries are demanding a 10% pay hike. Their union points to…
PITTSBURGH — Pressmen, typographers, mailers and delivery drivers struck the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct. 6. Reporters and other newsroom employees joined them 12 days later. “We’re striking about our health care,” Keith Wytiaz, a 25-year Post-Gazette pressman, told the Militant. “The…
Sixty years ago the U.S. rulers pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war in what is widely known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many books have been written presenting Washington’s and Moscow’s point of view on what occurred.…
The French edition of Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning Under Capitalism by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It explains how class…
November 10, 1997 HOUSTON — Over 200 people gathered Oct. 5 at the University of Houston for the Che Guevara Commemoration Conference. The keynote speaker was Angela Davis, currently a professor in feminist and African American studies at the University…
‘Send me your newspaper’ I ran across one of your newspapers that was left in a cell after I moved in. It wasn’t the full edition, but I loved the articles on Ukraine and the way you support the overworked…
SYDNEY — A protest set for Nov. 6 here will challenge the Australian Labor Party government’s failure to carry out a promise to grant permanent visas to thousands of asylum-seekers. For years they have been barred by successive governments from…
WASHINGTON — Some 30 people, many originally from Africa, came together here Oct. 17 to discuss the political legacy of Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso and the country’s president. This is the 35th…
