Bus drivers strike at Autobus Venise in fight for higher wages

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

SALABERRY-DE VALLEYFIELD, Quebec — Unifor Local 700 bus drivers working for Autobus Venise commemorated four months on strike here Aug. 3. They are fighting against inadequate and patronizing boss proposals. “We want to negotiate, but we won’t negotiate for nothing,”…


Bosses drive for profits, rail workers lose lives and limbs

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Rail workers picket North American Rail Shippers’ Kansas City conference, May 2022, during contract negotiations. Four rail workers have been killed on the job in the last seven weeks.

Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and fires contaminated East Palestine, Ohio, working people everywhere have been paying attention to the job conditions and life disruptions the bosses’ drive for profits inflicts on rail workers and their families. During…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

August 24, 1998 “Fidel, Fidel!” roared an enthusiastic crowd when Cuban president Fidel Castro arrived in Grenada Aug. 2 on the last stop of a week-long tour through the English-speaking Caribbean. Just 15 years ago, U.S. forces invaded Grenada, occupied…


Thomas Sankara showed road forward

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

The course led by Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso is a powerful example to working people across Africa, in the U.S. and worldwide. Tens of millions confront social and economic crises, the deadly consequences of Moscow’s war in Ukraine and…


Cuba’s working people defended their revolution arms in hand

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Cuban militia members celebrate successfully defending their socialist revolution against an April 1961 invasion at Playa Girón fomented by the capitalist rulers in Washington.

Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The excerpt is from the chapter “There will be a victorious revolution in the…


Oberlin sues insurance companies for refusal to pay college’s legal bill

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Working people gather in solidarity with Gibson family at their bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, 2022. Gibsons won lawsuit against Oberlin College for ongoing campaign of race-baiting slanders.

A small family-owned bakery with delicious pastries in Oberlin, Ohio, is in the news again, but not for anything they’ve done. After a six-year battle, the owners of Gibson’s Bakery finally defeated efforts by Oberlin College administrators to destroy them…


Hotel workers protest violence against pickets in California

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Striking hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, rally in Long Beach, California, Aug. 11 in fight for contract and against violent attacks by hotel security on picket lines.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hundreds of hotel workers and their supporters protested outside the Hotel Maya in Long Beach Aug. 11, and at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and the Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point the next…


LA hotel, city workers strike, join fights by actors, writers

Common actions build working-class solidarity
Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
Over 11,000 Los Angeles city workers, including sanitation and airport workers, mechanics, gardeners and lifeguards, held 24-hour strike Aug. 8, protesting understaffing and overwork.

LOS ANGELES — Hotel workers held their fourth round of rolling strikes here Aug. 3-7. Thousands of UNITE HERE Local 11 members struck at 26 of the 60 area hotels where union contracts had expired June 30. Area hotels are…


Judge orders release of ‘Newburgh 4,’ framed by FBI

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

NEW YORK — After being arrested in 2009, convicted a year later for a “conspiracy” that didn’t exist, and imprisoned for the last 14 years, three men who are part of a group known as the “Newburgh Four” were granted…


New report shows rail bosses caused East Palestine disaster

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
Uncontrolled toxic fire instigated by Norfolk Southern bosses after derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, six months ago prioritized getting trains running as opposed to safety of area residents.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Aug. 3 marked six months to the day that 150-car Norfolk Southern train 32N derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a social disaster. The train was almost 2 miles long, weighing 18,000 tons. The derailment dumped 50…