School bus drivers make gains in Montreal-area strike

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

MONTREAL — Rejecting a “settlement” imposed by government and boss-backed compulsory arbitration, 350 school bus drivers for the Transco company voted March 7 to accept a conciliator’s proposal and end their four-month strike. The drivers are members of the Confederation…


Moves to silence J.K. Rowling are attacks on women’s rights

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Protest at Scottish Parliament Feb. 9, 2023, over “transgender” men being put in women’s jail cells. Inset, J.K. Rowling faces “hate crime” charges over her support for ban on “all men — however they identify” in women’s spaces.

LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for working people is the defense of crucial free speech rights,…


Capitalist rivalry worldwide fuels war in Sudan, crisis for toilers

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

A civil war has exploded once again over the past 11 months in the North African country of Sudan, pitting the official armed forces against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The clash for power has devastated the lives of millions…



Unions in Twin Cities build a coalition, take on boss attacks

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — Five days of strikes and labor actions have culminated in a number of new contract agreements in the Twin Cities area, after a coalition of unions formed last October organized coordinated actions in March. Workers who clean office…


‘Roots of advances for Cuban women are in our revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

NEW YORK— “The tremendous advances for women in Cuba have their roots in the revolution that triumphed on Jan. 1, 1959,” Osmayda Hernández said at a March 16 meeting here. Hernández, a member of the national leadership of the Federation…



Che: Cuba’s socialist revolution shows way forward for humanity

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Che Guevara, right, in voluntary labor at 1961 Cuban construction site. In 1987, Fidel Castro led revival of Che’s ideas on transforming working people while deepening socialist revolution

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is  Che Guevara Speaks, first published within weeks of his death in combat at the hands of the CIA and U.S.-trained forces in Bolivia in 1967. Che joined the revolutionary movement…



Biden White House tells Israel: ‘Back off war against Hamas’

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Food market in Nuseirat, central Gaza, March 18. Joseph Biden White House, liberal media echo exaggerations by Hamas apologists of widespread starvation in Gaza. Responsibility for crisis begins with Hamas Oct. 7 deadly pogrom, breaking years-long cease-fire with Israel.

The Joseph Biden White House and Democratic Party, while claiming to “support” Israel, are stepping up pressure on the Israeli government to end its military operations to dismantle Hamas. Echoing open supporters of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, they falsely accuse…