Pombo: A Man of Che’s Guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966-68 by Harry Villegas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Villegas, known the world over as “Pombo,” the nom de guerre given him by revolutionary…
“Porcelain War,” a film by directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. Showing in theaters now. In Ukrainian, with English and Russian subtitles. MINNEAPOLIS — I saw “Porcelain War,” a recent documentary film made in Ukraine, early in January. As a…
Israel continues to face deadly threats from the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran — Hamas’ main backer — as it advances efforts to produce nuclear weapons. Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calls Israel a “cancerous growth” that must be “uprooted…
Members of Unifor Local 101R at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway have voted by 99% to authorize strike action. On Jan. 27, two days before the workers were set to walk out, CPKC announced a tentative four-year contract had been…
MONTREAL — In the first of a possible five days of strikes, almost 13,000 workers from 400 government child care facilities rallied and marched in cities and towns across Quebec Jan. 23. They are demanding the government negotiate a union…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term Jan. 10 has heightened discussions in U.S. ruling-class circles about what Washington’s next moves on the country should be. In July, Maduro was declared the winner of a highly polarized…
“Who are we? Teamsters. What do we want? A contract. When do we want it? Now. If we don’t get it? Shut them down,” shouted dozens of Costco workers, members of the Warehouse Division of the Teamsters union, at a…
As the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, murderous war against Ukraine approaches, more and more of the country’s men have been called on to defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand. This has meant substantially greater numbers of…
MONTREAL — On Jan. 28 rail bosses at Canadian National Railway and union officials of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents the signal and communications workers, announced that a tentative four-year agreement had been reached, the same day…
The 700 members of Culinary Workers Local 226 and of Bartenders Local 165, both UNITE HERE affiliates, voted unanimously to end a 69-day strike Jan. 22 after bosses at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas met most of their demands. The bosses,…
