How Minneapolis Teamsters organized to win strikes in 1934

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Minneapolis cops use tear gas against 10,000 unemployed workers protesting April 6, 1934. Teamsters strikes showed how to organize to win, electrifying broad masses of working people.

Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It is the story of the Teamsters’ organizing drive in Minneapolis where rank-and-file workers won hard-fought strikes in 1934, defeating combined strikebreaking efforts by the…


French election reflects impact of crisis hitting working people

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Over 100,000 marched in some 250 rallies across France May 1, 2022, including in Toulouse, above, demanding President Macron drop his move to raise workers’ retirement age. Protesters called themselves “gilets jaunes.” Banner reads, “Yellow vests of all countries, unite!”

The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…


Fight for workers power to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

Washington, London and other “democratic” imperialist governments refused to offer Jews facing the Nazi Holocaust a refuge before, during and after World War II. The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. With nowhere else to go, thousands of Jews interned in…


Moscow’s war aims to destroy the Ukrainian people, culture

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Hundreds of people volunteered to clear debris, save survivors at Ukraine’s main children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv after missile hit July 8 in Moscow’s deadliest air attacks in months.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in 2022, he minced no words in explaining Ukraine is not really a nation at all and has no right to be one. “Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia,”…


Ontario Cargill workers end strike for better wages

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
UFCW Canada members at Cargill’s beef-processing plant in Guelph, Ontario, on strike since May 27 seeking wages that match inflation, accepted new contract.

GUELPH, Ontario — After a hard-fought six-week strike at the Cargill beef-processing plant here, the nearly 1,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 narrowly voted to accept the latest contract offer July 6. After voting a 99%…


Flight attendants set rally

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

On July 31 members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at Endeavor Air will picket at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re demanding wages equal to those paid at Delta Air Lines, Endeavor’s parent company.  While wearing the same uniforms…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

July 19, 1999 The following statement was issued by the Communist League in Canada. The labor movement across Canada must transform the huge sympathy for the 47,500 Quebec nurses into actions in the streets. We must call for repeal of…


‘Exodus’: Hard-fought journey of heroic Holocaust survivors

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Jewish refugees hemmed in by British troops on Exodus in Haifa, Palestine, July 18, 1947, after they rammed, boarded the boat. British took them to displaced persons camps in Germany.

This month marks the 77th anniversary since thousands of survivors of the Holocaust boarded a ship in France, soon renamed Exodus 1947, in an attempt to rebuild their lives in Palestine. From the get-go the ship was trailed, then brutally…


Join our fight against the ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

“I learned that Florida prison officials have banned an issue of the Militant newspaper in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers,” Yecenia Arango, assistant branch manager of the St. Louis County…


Minneapolis park workers strike is for ‘whole working class’

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — “If we fight, we win!” 100 members, family and supporters of Laborers’ Local 363 chanted as they rallied at the Labor Center here July 4. The union, which represents over 300 workers who take care of the park…