At the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a number of decisions with important ramifications for the struggles of working people today. This week we reprint a section from Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege,…
LOS ANGELES — A spirited rally of 2,000 hotel workers took place on July 4 in downtown Los Angeles. Another was held in Santa Monica. Two days earlier hundreds picketed in front of the Intercontinental Hotel here They chanted “Únete.…
NEW YORK — Working people here are once again facing rising rents as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted June 21 to increase rents by the highest amount in a decade on some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Rents for a…
Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, July 5. The confidence and determination shown by striking Los Angeles hotel workers is a boost to the entire labor movement. Thousands-strong, UNITE HERE Local 11 members…
ERIE, Pa. — The strike by 1,400 United Electrical Workers members against Wabtec Corp. here that began June 22 remains solid and spirited. Workers at the plant build rail locomotives. The two striking UE locals, production workers in Local 506…
July 13, 1998 BRONX, New York — The New York cop accused of choking Anthony Baez to death in 1994 was convicted in Federal court of violating Baez’s civil rights. Free on bond and facing up to 10 years in…
Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, describes how V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks led workers and peasants to fight to make and…
AUSTIN, Texas — Nurses at Ascension-owned medical centers here and in Wichita, Kansas, organized an historic one-day strike June 27, the largest nurses strikes ever in both states, demanding higher staffing levels and better working conditions. Immediately after the National…
MONTREAL — Over 5,000 teachers from all over Quebec marched down Grande Allee in Quebec City June 10. They rallied in front of the National Assembly, demanding better working conditions and higher pay to keep up with inflation. The government…
In June 1979 the Supreme Court upheld a contract negotiated by the United Steelworkers of America with Kaiser Aluminum. In order to upgrade employment for those targeted by longstanding discrimination, the contract had established a quota that one-half of the…
