Chicago health care workers strike over layoffs, contract

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

CHICAGO — Some 440 health care workers, members of the Illinois Nurses Association at Howard Brown Health, carried out a three-day strike Jan. 3-5, protesting the layoff of 61 union workers. Strikers include therapists, health educators and greeters, among others,…


Capitalist rulers in Europe mask depth of rising prices

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Thousands demonstrate in Paris Jan. 7 demanding higher wages to cover soaring prices and to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to increase retirement age beyond 62 years.

The big-business media is hailing the slight drop in inflation rates in Europe last month as a sign that the capitalist rulers are getting price rises under control. But this masks the intolerable impact that decades-high levels continue to have…


Port of Quebec workers fight for livable schedules

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Port of Quebec workers fight for livable schedules

QUEBEC CITY — Eighty-one longshoremen, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2614 at the Port of Quebec here, have been on the picket line since bosses locked them out Sept. 15. While visiting the picket line Dec.…


Solidarity key to strengthening union actions in UK

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Hundreds of trade unionists join protest against government anti-strike bill Jan. 16, Downing Street, London. Action was called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

MANCHESTER, England — “On our 16th day of action fighting for a pay rise I want to extend support to all the other unions that are in this fight,” train conductor Clayton Clive told a Jan. 7 solidarity rally of…


1934 Teamsters strike showed the way for workers everywhere

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Minneapolis Teamsters defeat attacks by police, bosses’ thugs in “Battle of Deputies Run,” May 21, 1934. Class-struggle leadership mobilized union, support, ensuring strike was victorious.

The Communist League of America 1932-34 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s January Books of the Month. Under the inspiration of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Cannon helped found the Communist Party in the U.S. in 1919.…


‘Peace’ movement backs Putin’s war aims

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

As he openly explained, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February to destroy its government, subjugate its people, obliterate their national identity, and incorporate it into a rebuilt greater Russian empire. With working people in the…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

February 2, 1998 LOS ANGELES — The crisis growing out of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads sparked a picket line of 45 spouses and children of Union Pacific employees at the Colton Yard in southern…


Havana Int’l Book Fair set for February

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

The 31st Havana International Book Fair, with the theme “To read is to grow,” will take place Feb. 9-19. This year’s country of honor is Colombia. This year’s fair also honors Cuban poet and essayist Fina García Marruz, who died…


San Francisco Bay cargo ship fuelers demand ‘No pay cuts!’

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

ALAMEDA, Calif. — “Leo Marine workers responsible for all cargo ship fueling in the San Francisco Bay voted to join IBU-ILWU last year,” read the call for a Jan. 11 rally here in support of the 30 workers fighting for…


Defend Ukraine independence! Moscow troops get out now!

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Ukraine protest in New York Times Square Feb. 26, 2022

Moscow’s larger and better armed military continues to fail to make any substantial gains against determined and motivated Ukrainian workers and soldiers defending their country’s independence.  Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a protracted war of attrition, seeking a…