Cuba speaks out at United Nations, New York meeting

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

NEW YORK — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla spoke at the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 21, condemning the “ruthless and unilateral economic, commercial and financial blockade” of his country imposed by the United States government for more than…


The FBI: A history of the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Above, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt signs 1934 bill, forerunner of executive order five years later increasing FBI powers to target unions and “subversives.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is directly behind Roosevelt. Below, Raid on Socialist Workers Party office in Minneapolis, June 1941. White House aimed to silence SWP and Teamster union leaders campaigning against rulers’ plans to send workers and farmers into second imperialist world war.

The Spanish-language edition of 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It traces…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

October 13, 1997 SYDNEY — On September 8 coal miners at Rio Tinto’s Hunter Valley #1 mine resumed strike action after the company suspended two workers for refusing to transfer from their usual jobs to work in the coal preparation…


Striking Kaiser mental health workers rally in California

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Above, rally held by National Union of Healthcare Workers in front of Kaiser Permanente headquarters in Oakland, California, Sept. 23. Workers have been on strike since Aug. 15 fighting for increased staffing. Inset, rally chair Steve Schoser and April Jordan, whose son Basil Faulkner committed suicide after failing to get timely appointment to deal with his depression.

OAKLAND, Calif. — People driving past honked in support as mental health workers on strike against health care giant Kaiser Permanente in Northern California rallied in front of the company’s headquarters here Sept. 23. More than 2,000 therapists, psychologists and…


Dockworkers in UK strike, win international solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

LIVERPOOL, England — Over 600 dockworkers, organized by the Unite union, went on strike here Sept. 20. Mass, lively pickets have been set up in front of the port. The port workers and maintenance engineers rejected a pay increase of…


IAM locals strike Weyerhaeuser lumber in Washington, Oregon

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

LONGVIEW, Wash. — Over 1,100 lumber workers struck Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington and Oregon Sept. 13. Four International Association of Machinists union locals organize workers at four sawmills, two log export facilities, two log truck operations and seven logging camps.…


Fight for justice for Mahsa Amini!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Millions of working people in the U.S. and worldwide stand with protesters across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the hands of the reactionary regime’s notorious “morality police.” She was arrested…