Ottawa orders dockworkers back to work, into binding arbitration

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Some 500 members and supporters of ILWU Local 514 rally at Vancouver, British Columbia, docks Nov. 8. Workers hold solidarity banner signed by dockworkers in Hawaii and Japan.

MONTREAL — Within days of the port bosses locking out some 1,900 unionized longshore workers in British Columbia and Quebec, the government responded to cries by boss associations across the country to act and stepped in Nov. 12, ordering the…


‘Solidarity, internationalism at heart of Cuban Revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Cuban medical workers with recovered Ebola patients in Guinea in 2015. Within three days, 12,000 Cubans volunteered to join the hazardous international mission, Ubieta writes.

Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta Gómez is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Earlier Ubieta visited remote areas of Central and Latin America and the Caribbean to cover…


Spread the word, build support for union fights

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Members of Unite union on strike at Oscar Mayer in Wrexham, North Wales, rally Oct. 24 to press fight against wage cut, win union recognition.

The outcome of the U.S. elections has done nothing to deter the bosses from putting the crisis of their capitalist system onto the backs of working people. And it has done nothing to quell workers’ determination to use unions to…


‘Enshrining’ abortion weakens fight for women’s rights

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

Based on false claims that the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs’ ruling in 2022 threatened to make women’s right to choose to have an abortion illegal nationwide, Democrats put initiatives on the ballot in 10 states this year to “enshrine” abortion…


Iran hospital workers: ‘We are nurses, not slaves’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Iran hospital workers: ‘We are nurses, not slaves’

Nurses and other health care workers at hospitals in at least 17 cities held protests or took strike action leading up to and on Iran’s National Nurses Day Nov. 7. They are protesting low wages, mandatory overtime, understaffing and poor…


D.C. protest defends Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

WASHINGTON — Several thousand people joined in “Stand Together,” a Nov. 10 rally and concert to defend Israel’s right to exist, to demand Hamas release the hostages it has held for over a year and to fight against antisemitism. The…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

November 29, 1999 The Russian government has begun a de facto military occupation of Chechnya — deploying 100,000 troops in and around the republic. The Kremlin, which originally claimed it needed to create a “buffer zone” against “Islamic terrorists,” is…


‘Unions are stepping forward to take on the bosses attacks today’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks with Boeing striker Howard Allen on picket line in Everett, Washington, Oct. 5, about key issues facing workers today.

‘We learned a lot in our campaign’: an interview with Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, presented the SWP’s working-class program…


Join campaign to expand reach of the ‘Militant,’ books, fall fund

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — With the 2024 election over and President-elect Donald Trump preparing his administration, members of the Socialist Workers Party are finding ongoing interest among working people in the party’s program and activity. Workers want to discuss what…