New Jersey nurses strike over work conditions

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Seventeen hundred nurses, members of United Steelworkers Local 4-200, went on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital here Aug. 4 after three months of negotiations produced no new contract. “This is not a step we…


Hotel workers strike against Sheraton Vancouver Airport

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

RICHMOND, British Columbia — “We are staying strong in our fight for a living wage. Solidarity from other unions is very important,” Ana Wong, a housekeeper for over 30 years at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport and member of UNITE HERE…


3,700 Toronto-area workers strike Metro grocery stores

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

TORONTO — Workers at 27 Metro grocery stores in the Greater Toronto Area walked off the job July 29 after voting down a proposed contract. The strike includes 3,700 clerks, cashiers, department managers, and pharmacy and Starbucks staff. They are…


Imprisoned for opposing US war drive, Debs ran for president

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
At rally in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs speaks against first imperialist war and in support of Russian Revolution. U.S. rulers tossed aside Constitution’s protection of free speech for him and others, put him in prison. Debs was leader of rail workers, Socialist Party.

The selection below is from Eugene V. Debs Speaks, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Debs, a railroad union fighter and pioneer socialist agitator, supported the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The excerpt is from his speech to…


Cuba shows road to end threat of nuclear war

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023
Cuban President Fidel Castro places wreath for victims of atom bomb at memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, March 3, 2003.

“We have never considered the idea of fabricating nuclear weapons, because we don’t need them,” former Cuban President Fidel Castro said in 2005, recorded in the book My Life. “What’s the purpose of producing a nuclear weapon when your enemy…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

August 24, 1998 The U.S. government’s interference in the Teamsters union has just taken one further, egregious step with the expulsion of the elected president, Ronald Carey, from the union by a court-appointed “Independent Review Board.” This attack is a…


Memphis strike wins broad union, community support

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Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G members on strike along with supporters picket, rally at International Flavors and Fragrances plant gate July 26.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “Union strong! All day long!” chanted some 75 striking members and supporters of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G as they rallied in front of the International Flavors and Fragrances plant here July 26.…


Peru protests demand ouster of government

Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023

Tens of thousands marched in Peru July 19, four months after a large wave of protests threw the country into turmoil following the removal and arrest of the country’s president, Pedro Castillo. The protesters demanded the resignation of Dina Boluarte…


New conspiracy charges against Trump deepen attack on rights

Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023

Assaults on constitutional freedoms, led overwhelmingly by Democrats, dominate the 2024 presidential election campaign. President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department is piling up charges against former President Donald Trump, trying to turn political differences into “crimes” and trying to put him…


NY meeting marks anniversary of opening of Cuban Revolution

Vol. 87/No. 30 - August 14, 2023
Celebration of 70th anniversary of July 26, 1953, Moncada attack opening Cuban Revolution was held in New York July 29. Inset, featured speaker, Cuba’s ambassador to U.N., Gerardo Peñalver Portal.

NEW YORK — Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, was the featured speaker at a celebration here of the 70th anniversary of the attacks led by Fidel Castro on the U.S.-backed dictatorship’s Moncada army garrison in…