LONDON — Over 200 refuse workers and street cleaners who work for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets voted to return to work Sept. 27. The members of the Unite union had struck Sept. 18 for higher pay. The settlement…
MONTREAL — Tens of thousands of public workers — 100,000 according to organizers — demonstrated in Montreal Sept. 23 to back up their demands and win support as negotiations with the Quebec government got underway. The majority were health and…
October 19, 1998 Beating the drums of American nationalism, the U.S. steel bosses have launched a reactionary campaign against steel imports. This campaign is a deadly trap for working people, designed to save steel bosses’ profits, while pitting working people…
Striking United Auto Workers at the Big Three are fighting to end conditions that confront tens of millions of workers across the country and beyond. For decades, the capitalist bosses have pushed to defend their profits by a relentless assault…
The deaths of thousands in Libya after the collapse of two dams uphill from the coastal city of Derna Sept. 11 was a social disaster rooted in colonial oppression and capitalist greed. It resulted not because of “climate change,” as…
SYDNEY — Working people here will vote in a referendum Oct. 14 on whether to change the Constitution to “recognize” the original inhabitants of the country by creating an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander “Voice” to act as an advisory…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October is Cuba & Angola: The War for Freedom by Harry Villegas. Widely known as “Pombo,” he fought alongside Che Guevara in Cuba, the Congo and in Bolivia. Pombo helped lead Cuba’s…
“By joining union struggles and going door to door in working-class communities, Socialist Workers Party campaigners in Georgia have sold 21 Militant subscriptions and 18 books by revolutionary leaders since the fall campaign began,” Susan LaMont, organizer of the SWP…
CINCINNATI — “The strikes today show more and more workers are fed up,” Gary Ringo, a bakery worker and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, told the Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 25. The forum…
TAMPA, Fla. — Forty people packed the U.S. Middle District federal courtroom here Sept. 28 to support African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel as their…
