The administration of President Donald Trump stepped up Washington’s pressure on the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro March 4. They revoked oil giant Chevron’s license to operate there, leaving Venezuela with a big hole in its income. The administration…
March 13, 2000 HAVANA — The following appeared in the Cuban newspaper Granma Internacional. It reports on a press conference by six farmers from the U.S. who conducted a fact-finding trip to Cuba. “I have discovered a big difference between…
To mark International Women’s Day March 8, Problems of Women’s Liberation by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month. Reed was a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party from 1940 until her death in 1979.…
On Feb. 27 the Israel Defense Forces made public a summary of its self-investigation of its failings leading to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas pogrom. It gives a glimpse of the scope of the massacre that day and exposes the…
HAVANA — Residents of the Atabey neighborhood here are taking initiatives to grow food and, in the process, remove and recycle garbage that has been piling up in their community. The challenges they are addressing, faced by Cubans nationwide, are…
One day after Washington announced measures imposing new visa restrictions on Cubans Feb. 25, more than 50,000 Cubans demonstrated in the city of Guantánamo, the capital of Guantánamo province, in an action called by the Central Organization of Cuban Workers…
PORTLAND, Ore. — After a six-week strike, 5,000 nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state approved new contracts Feb. 24, ending what the Oregon Nurses Association described as the largest health care workers strike in state history. Calling the…
MONTREAL — Caroline Senneville, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions in Quebec, spoke out against a proposed new law, Bill 89, which would give the provincial government the power to force striking workers back to work and impose…
MONTREAL — Demonstrations in support of Ukrainian sovereignty took place here and in over 700 cities in 78 countries around the world. Across Canada, rallies took place in dozens of cities. This country has 1.4 million people of Ukrainian descent,…
WASHINGTON — Omari Musa, a longtime member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Feb. 22 after a fight to overcome complications from medical conditions he faced in recent years. Musa, a member of the SWP…
