February 22, 1999 NEW YORK — Four New York City cops killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old vendor from Guinea, here Feb. 4 in a fusillade of 41 bullets. The unarmed man was struck by 19 bullets as he stood in…
CHELTENHAM, England — Some 5,000 workers marched behind union banners here Jan. 27 to protest against a new anti-union government law, the “Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act.” The law was passed to cripple the impact of union strike action. Enacted…
“I find that paper very interesting,” rail worker Anthony Veach told Socialist Workers Party members Jacquie Henderson and Anthony Dutrow as they were introducing the Militant and Pathfinder books to workers going in to work at the CSX yard plant…
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Jan. 28 Militant Labor Forum here featured a speakout against recent attacks on protesters in El Cerrito who defend the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews and a discussion on how to…
Liberals desperate to boost President Joseph Biden’s reelection hopes claim there is an unprecedented “upswing” in the U.S. economy underway today. At a meeting of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan, Feb. 1, Biden bragged the U.S. has “the…
The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Guevara, an Argentinian who helped lead the Cuban Revolution, set out in Bolivia to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants.…
LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 launched a new series of strikes at Hotel Figueroa Jan. 21 and DoubleTree by Hilton Jan. 22, both downtown here, and at Sheraton Park in Anaheim where hundreds of workers protested Jan. 25.…
Socialist Workers Party members in Pennsylvania held a statewide membership meeting in Philadelphia Jan. 26 to discuss how to use the SWP campaigns of Ved Dookhun for U.S. Senate and Candace Wagner for U.S. Congress in Pittsburgh’s District 12. Dookhun…
LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Over 400 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000, ratified a new, improved contract at three Macy’s stores in Washington Jan. 29 after strike actions at Alderwood, Southcenter and Bellingham malls. Strikers distributed leaflets…
MANCHESTER, England — “Jews were hated because we were poor, because we were rich, because we were communist, because we were capitalist, because we kept to ourselves, because we infiltrated everywhere,” Mark Adlestone, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of…
