EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — One year ago on Feb. 3 a Norfolk Southern train derailed and some 50 rail cars went on the ground here, including 11 cars of hazardous chemicals, five of which were loaded with toxic vinyl chloride.…
CHICAGO — Over 34,000 immigrant workers seeking asylum have arrived here since August 2022, sent by bus or plane by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Most are from Venezuela and other countries in Latin America. Some 15,000 are currently staying in…
The first-ever execution by nitrogen gas suffocation was carried out Jan. 25 when Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed in pain as he was put to death in Alabama’s Holman prison. “When they turned the nitrogen on he began to convulse,” Rev.…
The U.S. Labor Department reported last month that union membership dropped last year to 10%. At the same time, more workers are using unions to resist the employers’ assaults. As the Socialist Workers Party 2022 resolution explains, “The low point…
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.…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
