Airport cleaners, SEIU 32BJ rally in Pittsburgh

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

PITTSBURGH —Aircraft cleaners and other workers at Jetstream Ground Services at the airport here are organizing to get better conditions and an end to boss harassment. On Feb. 23, members of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ took a bus…


Health workers in Australia protest parking fees

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

SYDNEY — Some 40 health workers, members of the Health Services Union, joined a lunchtime rally and march at Liverpool Hospital here Feb. 29 to protest significant hikes in parking fees imposed by the New South Wales state government. Michael…


UK rail workers strike against two tiers, demand better pay

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

MANCHESTER, England — “They say low pay. We say no way!” chanted rail workers outside the offices of Carlisle Support Services Feb. 21 during two days of strike action here. Earlier in the day more than 70 of them joined…


Worldwide protests back Ukraine battle to defend its independence

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Thousands rally in Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 24 supporting Ukraine after two years of Moscow’s invasion. Placard, center right, says in Ukrainian: “We will not forget our heroes, we will not forgive our enemies.” Similar protests took place all around the world.

Many tens of thousands of working people in Ukraine and supporters around the world of their struggle for independence took to the streets Feb. 24 to mark two important anniversaries. The first was two years since the murderous invasion of…


New protests against Hamas as Israeli forces make progress

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Rafah, Gaza, protest against skyrocketing prices Feb. 28. Hamas steals part of the humanitarian aid, sells some of it at a huge profit, while civilians suffer impact of the war Hamas provoked.

An Israeli victory over Hamas — a group financed, organized and armed by Tehran that exists to kill Jews and drive them out of the Middle East — will be a blow to reactionary forces that promote Jew-hatred across the…


Workers face crush of price rises as bosses boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

In spite of falling prices overall, and claims by the president’s backers in 2024 that “Bidenomics” is a smashing success, working people continue to be hammered by high prices for groceries and other necessities. This occurs as a current uptick…


Socialist Workers Party joins actions demanding Moscow out of Ukraine!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe joined car caravan in San Francisco Feb. 24 backing Ukraine’s independence fight against Moscow’s invasion. Inset, Trowe addresses the rally.

Campaign supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. built and joined the tens of thousands worldwide who marched and rallied to protest Moscow’s war on Ukraine Feb. 24, marking the second…


Pathfinder books win widespread interest at Havana Int’l Book Fair

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Visitors crowd into central bookstore for Cuban publishers at Havana International Book Fair Feb. 24. Foreign and other Cuban publishers had stalls elsewhere around the book fair grounds.

HAVANA — The Pathfinder stand at the Havana International Book Fair was a center for nonstop discussion, as it has been for a quarter century. Hundreds of people came looking for books about the crisis-wracked capitalist world today, the history…



Fidel Castro: ‘Che’s ideas are absolutely relevant today’

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Havana, November 1961. Che Guevara, minister of industry, gives “Territory Free of Illiteracy” banner to workers at paint factory. “We’re not trying to set a world record,” he said. “We’re teaching people to read and write so you can learn other things, and combine study and work.”

The following excerpts are from the speech by Fidel Castro on Oct. 8, 1987, at the main ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, held at the newly completed electronic components factory in Pinar del…