Tehran tries to block protests marking Zhina Amini’s death

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Retired teachers in Kermanshah, Iran, Aug. 22. Teachers union has backed weekly nationwide protests demanding freedom for imprisoned teachers, increase in pensions, political rights.

The bourgeois clerical regime in Tehran has launched new moves against working people and its political opponents, hoping to head off protests on the one-year anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022,…


Wisconsin dairy workers strike for wage raise, health coverage

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

DE PERE, Wis. — Over 30 members of Teamsters Local 662 have been on strike against New Dairy Select Milk here since July 10. The company is demanding workers take an inferior and more expensive health care plan. On July…


Thomas Sankara pointed revolutionary road forward in Africa

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Fidel Castro welcomes Thomas Sankara in Havana Sept. 25, 1984. Sankara, a communist, looked to Castro’s Marxist leadership and the voluntary mobilizations of workers and peasants in Cuba’s socialist revolution as he led a popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso.

Thomas Sankara Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Sankara was the outstanding leader of a revolution in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, from 1983 to 1987. His speeches explain how the…


Build the unions! March Labor Day!

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

More workers today find themselves locked in battles with bosses seeking to push down our wages, health care, work schedules and working conditions. Unions are the key weapons workers have to fight back. We need to strengthen the unions, join…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

September 7, 1998 At 6:00 a.m. Aug. 14, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees struck Conrail. The system-wide strike was called after Conrail broke an agreement with the union and contracted with a nonunion outfit to construct…


New indictment of Trump is frontal attack on free speech

Defend constitutional rights! Drop the charges
Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Image of Donald Trump fills screen at June 16, 2022, hearing in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, riot at Capitol. Democrats’ witch hunt against former president aims to stop him running today.

On Aug. 14, Fani Willis, the Democratic district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, announced the indictment of former President Donald Trump and a number of his political supporters under the notorious anti-union RICO law. A grand jury she has been…


Crisis deepens in Africa after coup in Niger

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

The Economic Community of West African States, led by the government of Nigeria, rejected a proposal by Niger’s new military junta Aug. 21 to relinquish their rule and hold elections within three years. This increases the threat of conflict, with…


Build support for grocery workers strike in Toronto

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Unifor Local 414 members picket in Toronto Aug. 13. The grocery workers struck July 29 for better wages, benefits.

TORONTO — On the strike picket line at the Eglinton Square Metro grocery store here Aug. 11, Shannyn St. Aubin told the Militant she gets paid the minimum wage, 15.50 Canadian dollars ($11.47) an hour. “I’d like to help my…


Evidence shows capitalist greed, gov’t policies led to Maui disaster

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Burned-out homes in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, surround old Pioneer Mill smokestack. Wildfire started Aug. 8, fueled by overgrown invasive grasses on abandoned sugar plantation land.

Two weeks after a fast-moving wildfire wiped out the city of Lahaina on Maui, evidence mounts that the culprit is decades of capitalist exploitation and oppression exacerbated by recent government decisions to prioritize spending money on fighting “climate change” over…


SWP candidates advance program for working class to take political power

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

Socialist Workers Party candidates and members are discussing the party’s revolutionary program with fellow working people as they campaign door to door, visit union picket lines and join protests against the effects of the capitalist crisis. They’re also getting back…