VALDOSTA, Ga. — “Trees are down everywhere. People have been without power for days. Many haven’t had water,” Willie Head, who has a small farm near here, told Militant correspondents Sam Manuel and me Oct. 6. We were driving through…
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpt below is from “The death agony of capitalism and the tasks of the Fourth International,” the program adopted in…
Hurricane Helene made landfall at Keaton Beach in Florida at 11:10 p.m. Sept. 26, then traveled north, drenching Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. This devastating storm, with over 225 dead, an unknown number still missing and substantial damage…
Below are excerpts from the opening chapter of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince. Copyright © 2024 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission.…
October 25, 1999 MONTREAL — Owner-operator truck drivers began taking actions across Quebec the week of Oct. 2 in support of their right to unionize and negotiate their working conditions collectively. They voted Oct. 10 to defy an injunction ordering…
JACKSON, Mich. — “17 Days of Solidarity” read the handwritten sign at the United Auto Workers Local 475 strike tent where workers are picketing 24/7. Treat-filled tables and honks of encouragement showed the support some 525 strikers against Eaton Aerospace…
Fruit joins Boeing picket, builds support for strike SEATTLE — “We’re out here, not for me, but for my son” and other younger hires, Tom Brown, a striking Boeing worker told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president,…
HAPEVILLE, Ga. — Marching behind a big red banner that read “Same work, poverty pay. End the Delta disparity difference,” some 50 Endeavor Air flight attendants, backed by pilots and other supporters, held a spirited protest at Delta Air Lines…
COMMERCE, Calif. — With over two months on strike against the bosses at Monogram Aerospace Fasteners here, United Auto Workers Local 509 members are determined to come out on top. “The one exciting thing that’s come out of this is…
BOSTON — A spirited picket line of striking hotel workers marched around the Hilton Boston Park Plaza, chanting, dancing and drumming on Home Depot buckets Oct. 8. Over 600 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 26, have been on strike…
