After Trump win, Democrats shift assault on political rights

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

From the moment Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2016, the Democrats and their liberal allies in the media and the middle-class left have targeted him. More importantly, they’ve targeted the millions of workers Hillary Clinton famously…


Massachusetts teachers advance in strikes for higher pay, more aides

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Striking teachers, supporters picket Nov. 22 in Beverly, Massachusetts, over pay, especially for paraprofessionals. Two-week-long strikes ended with tentative agreements reached Nov. 26.

BEVERLY, Mass. — Beverly and Marblehead teachers have been involved in strikes over higher pay, more and better-paid teachers’ aides, longer parental leave, and improved conditions in the schools. Public employees strikes are illegal in Massachusetts, and punitive escalating fines…




To fight high prices, build union solidarity

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

Persistently high prices and growing employer attacks are increasing the difficulties workers and our families face. It’s harder today to find steady work with livable wages and meet the costs of our housing, health care, child care and other essentials.…


Hotel workers strike over wages and jobs in San Francisco

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — More than 500 workers walked off the job at the Marriott Marquis downtown here Nov. 24, bringing to six the number of hotels now on strike. Some 2,500 UNITE HERE Local 2 members are walking the picket…



Greek unions general strike protests high prices

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

Workers in rail, shipping, public transportation and construction, at hospitals, schools and elsewhere, joined a general strike across Greece Nov. 20 to protest soaring prices, unaffordable rents and low wages. The one-day action was called by a number of unions.…


Iran: Thousands of retired teachers demand pension hike

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

Thousands of retired teachers, many coming from other cities, joined a march along a busy street in Tehran to Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, Nov. 20, above, demanding an increase in their pensions. It was one of the largest labor protests…


‘Only social revolution can sweep clean a path for a new culture’

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Co-authors of “Manifesto for an independent revolutionary art,” from left, André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, in Mexico City in 1938 on the eve of the Second World War.

What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Breton founded the surrealist movement, an influential current in literature and art, 100 years ago. In 1925, he defended Russian revolutionary leaders…