Year: 2022

Bay Area unionists in solidarity action with Chevron strikers

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

RICHMOND, Calif. — Dozens of unionists, including Teamsters, Machinists, Electrical Workers and others, joined the picket line at the Chevron refinery here March 28 to show solidarity with oil workers on strike. The action was called by the Contra Costa…

Sand and gravel truck haulers strike, win 20% rate increase

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Members of Ontario Aggregate Trucking Association picket entrance to quarry in Milton, Ontario, March 21, part of two-week strike which won workers a 20% wage raise.

MILTON, Ontario — Truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, won a 20% rate increase from trucking bosses after a two-week strike that closed quarries and shut down much…

Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

MCCALLA, Alabama — United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year against Warrior Met Coal were joined in a solidarity rally here April 6 by hundreds of unionists from across the South and Midwest. Over…

For Cuban working people, revolution was ‘the only way forward’

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Banner of revolutionary-minded youth movement of Orthodox Party leads march against coup by U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista in Havana in 1952. From these beginnings, Fidel Castro organized the July 26 Movement, which led working people to take power into their own hands.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April is the Spanish edition of  Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58, a Participant’s Account  by Armando Hart. One of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Hart was a central…

Defend independence of Ukraine! For defeat of Moscow’s invasion!

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Residents of Ivankiv, 50 miles northwest of Kyiv, celebrate ouster of Moscow’s occupation troops April 1. Fierce resistance by Ukrainian people forced Russian retreat. Despite brutal repression by Vladimir Putin regime, working people in Russia find ways to protest Ukraine war.

After over a month of stubborn resistance by Ukrainian forces and volunteers against Moscow’s invasion, two-thirds of Russian ground forces have withdrawn from around the capital, Kyiv, and from Chernobyl, Chernihiv, Sumy and numerous other smaller towns. Russian President Vladimir…

A working-class road to oppose Putin’s war

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

Mounting condemnation of Moscow’s brutality at Bucha fill the pages of the capitalist press following the release of pictures and eyewitness accounts of the massacre carried out there by Russian armed forces. The brutality reflects the disdain of Vladimir Putin…

Court ruling for the Gibsons is a victory for working people

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Four generations of the Gibson family and their legal team celebrate June 13, 2019, after Lorain County jury decided in their favor against Oberlin College officials’ campaign of “racism” smears.

Ohio’s Ninth District Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a 2019 jury verdict and $31 million award won by the Gibson family, owners of a fifth-generation local bakery and store in Oberlin, against a yearslong race-baiting and defamatory assault by Oberlin…

Workers win union vote at NY Amazon warehouse

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

STATEN ISLAND, New York — Showing a growing desire to resist speedup, unsafe conditions, bosses’ disrespect and the need to win higher wages, workers at the massive JFK8 Amazon warehouse here voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of the Amazon…