Faced with months of determined and massive protests over their handling of the country’s crippling social and economic crisis, and widespread corruption, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced July 9 that they would resign soon.…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…
July 28, 1997 UNITED NATIONS — “We have come to denounce the colonial and imperialistic policies that the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico for the last 99 years,” said Raquel Rivera June 19 at the UN Special Committee…
Help get the word out about the strike by workers at Case New Holland widely in the labor movement and beyond! This fight by hundreds of United Auto Workers members in Iowa and Wisconsin is a fight in the interest…
Socialist Workers Party candidates in Minnesota issued a statement July 5 answering vile antisemitic leaflets distributed anonymously in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, near Talmud Torah’s Newman elementary school. The rightist leaflet was headlined “Every Single Aspect of…
In a serious blow to political rights, a Ukrainian administrative court in Lviv July 5 upheld the government’s longstanding ban on the Communist Party and the Happy Ukraine Party. Both were among the 11 parties ordered shut down by President…
People living in the largely devastated outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol erupted in a substantial protest July 8 after two pensioners died in the street trying to find drinking water. A meeting at a school in the Volonterivka…
More and more prison systems across the country are no longer delivering mail from the post office to workers behind bars. On the pretext of slowing the flow of drugs and other contraband to inmates, they are requiring that letters,…
Thousands of farmers driving their tractors demonstrated June 22 in central Netherlands protesting government plans to compel them to reduce their livestock herds by 30%, forcing the scaling back or closing of a number of farms. Traffic came to a…
