Solidarity key to strengthening union actions in UK

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Hundreds of trade unionists join protest against government anti-strike bill Jan. 16, Downing Street, London. Action was called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

MANCHESTER, England — “On our 16th day of action fighting for a pay rise I want to extend support to all the other unions that are in this fight,” train conductor Clayton Clive told a Jan. 7 solidarity rally of…


1934 Teamsters strike showed the way for workers everywhere

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Minneapolis Teamsters defeat attacks by police, bosses’ thugs in “Battle of Deputies Run,” May 21, 1934. Class-struggle leadership mobilized union, support, ensuring strike was victorious.

The Communist League of America 1932-34 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s January Books of the Month. Under the inspiration of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Cannon helped found the Communist Party in the U.S. in 1919.…


‘Peace’ movement backs Putin’s war aims

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

As he openly explained, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February to destroy its government, subjugate its people, obliterate their national identity, and incorporate it into a rebuilt greater Russian empire. With working people in the…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

February 2, 1998 LOS ANGELES — The crisis growing out of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads sparked a picket line of 45 spouses and children of Union Pacific employees at the Colton Yard in southern…


Havana Int’l Book Fair set for February

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

The 31st Havana International Book Fair, with the theme “To read is to grow,” will take place Feb. 9-19. This year’s country of honor is Colombia. This year’s fair also honors Cuban poet and essayist Fina García Marruz, who died…


Support Iran protests! End gov’t repression!

What’s the real history of Iran’s 1979 revolution?
Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
March in Zahedan, capital of Baluchistan, Iran, Dec. 30, demands end death penalty, stop arrest of protesters. Region has been a hotbed of resistance to regime’s attacks on democratic rights.

The capitalist rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran are divided on how to face continuing challenges to their regime. Neither their slanders of anti-government protesters as dupes of U.S. imperialism, or of the “Zionist” Israeli government, nor their brutal…


Amnesty for undocumented workers, unify working class!

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Immigrant rights march April 2021 near the White House. Fighting for amnesty for undocumented workers in the U.S. is key to working-class unity, strengthening our unions.

Now halfway through the term of President Joseph Biden, his Border Patrol agents arrested a record 2.2 million immigrants in 2022 at the border with Mexico. Nearly half were deported back under Title 42, a 1944 law invoked in March…


Back Ukraine independence! Protest Putin’s war, bombings

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Ukrainian people have stepped up the courageous defense of their homeland as fighting grinds on in the south and east and as Moscow’s bombardment of cities across the country continues. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on the country’s power infrastructure…


Solidarity with Ingredion workers strike, stop boss takeback demands

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Mike Moore, center, president of BCTGM Local 100G, on strike against Ingredion in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives check on picket line for $1,521 from Dan Fein and Veronica Hopkins (taking picture) Dec. 29 from BCTGM Local 1 collection at Mondelez bakery in Chicago.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — “This is our 151st day on strike and we’re still holding the line,” Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 100G President Mike Moore told this fellow union member and Militant worker-correspondent on the picket…