Meeting marks life and political contributions of Bruce Kimball

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Above, Bruce Kimball. Inset, Peter Heathfield, left, general secretary of National Union of Mineworkers, with Kimball, Militant correspondent and coal miner, in March 1984.

ATLANTA – A meeting to celebrate the political life and contributions of Bruce Kimball, a member and later a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for more than 50 years, was held here Feb. 4. Kimball died of cancer Jan.…


Canada: Attacks on churches set back fight of Native peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

MONTREAL — There have been 96 recorded cases of arson and graffiti attacks on churches across Canada, more than half of them Catholic churches, with several burned to the ground, since the discovery of what is likely the remains of…


Head Start in NY county shuts down, workers left hanging

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

BETHEL, N.Y. — Children enrolled in the Head Start program and their families in Sullivan County, 90 miles north of New York City, took a big hit Feb. 2. I work as a bus driver transporting some of these children.…



Communist International defended rights of oppressed peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Lenin speaks at Second Congress of Communist International, July 1920, in Petrograd, Russia. Combating persecution of Jews, said Lenin, is vital to advance socialist revolution as only road to ensure rights of all oppressed nations. Under his leadership, Bolshevik Party was on the front lines of the fight to end pogroms.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920, Vol. 1. The 1917 revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


Get Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

Two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine to crush its independence and subjugate its people. Eight years earlier workers across Ukraine rose up in massive protests for political rights that ousted the pro-Moscow regime of…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

March 1, 1999 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “The British government has got away with murder for too long — let’s see if they can handle the truth as well as they can handle the lies,” said Kay Duddy. Her brother,…


Calif. rally demands, ‘Reinstate fired health care workers’

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Rally at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, California, Feb. 10 demands nine fired health care workers be reinstated. Hospital officials fired them for fighting for better staffing levels.

LYNWOOD, Calif. — Holding placards and wearing shirts demanding the reinstatement of nine fired workers, a spirited rally of 200 people was held across the street from St. Francis Medical Center here Feb. 10. Scott Byington, who has worked as…


Montreal school bus drivers strike for a pay raise

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

“The company wants us to go back to work and submit everything to arbitration. But arbitration won’t give us what we deserve. You have to fight to get what you need, which for us is a 37% wage increase over…


Protest against Jew-hatred! No to Putin’s war in Ukraine!

Support Ukraine battle for its independence
Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
People sign for anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin in Moscow Jan. 23. Putin, alarmed as 200,000 people were seen lining up to sign petitions, barred him from ballot.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate the lives of working people there, to fuel anti-war opposition to the regime of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, and to roil world politics as it enters its third year. Workers in Ukraine…