One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is The Struggle for Socialism in the “American Century”: Writings and Speeches, 1945-47 by James P. Cannon, then national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The U.S. rulers, after a bloody…
Substantial protests are growing across Turkey, after the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, his most prominent political rival, March 19. The crackdown marks an attempt by Erdogan to shore up his hold on power…
Thousands turned out in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, March 24 to protest plans to develop a luxury complex at the site of a former army headquarters destroyed during the 1999 NATO bombing. This marked the anniversary of the U.S.-led 78-day campaign…
LOS BAJOS DE HAINA, Dominican Republic — Some 100 workers came to a March 22 meeting here organized by Jesús Nuñez, at right, national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union. The weekly meetings began at the end of January as…
SYDNEY — “The capitalist rulers have no solution to their unfolding world crisis except to place the burden onto working people, as they prepare for more wars over markets and resources,” Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for Australia’s Senate,…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After a strike battle that lasted 1,411 days — nearly four years — members of UNITE HERE Local 40 registered an important victory ratifying a new contract. “Being brave paid off for workers at the Radisson…
MONTREAL — School workers in Alberta, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, made major wage gains in a series of strikes that began in Fort McMurray last November. There were nine groups of workers and 6,600 workers on…
LOS ANGELES — Workers at LSG Sky Chefs, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, marched and chanted at the airport demanding the bosses agree to a union contract that includes higher wages, better benefits, pensions, as well as dignity and…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — As they entered the third week of their strike here, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265 voted by 83% to reject the latest offer by the Valley Transportation Authority March 24. The vote reflects widespread…
NEW YORK — More than 100 people from the U.S. and Canada participated in a two-day conference here March 15-16 to discuss what faces the Cuban people today and plan activities to press Washington to end its more than 65-year…
