SOREL-TRACY, Quebec — Some 180 United Steelworkers union members have been on strike against Rio Tinto’s iron and titanium operation here since July 10. They are fighting for better wages and against concessions the company demands on their vacations. The…
Among Pathfinder’s July Books of the Month is The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? by Leon Trotsky. In October 1917 workers and peasants in Russia, led by V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, began…
In the middle of a life-or-death war to defend Israel’s existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms — the only such refuge in a world where attacks on Jews are on the rise — Israel has been wracked by…
The savage character of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people today means not only deadly aerial attacks on their cities, but also a callous contempt for the lives and families of Russian workers and farmers in uniform.…
On July 15 Michael Bernard Bell, 54, became the eighth death row inmate to be executed in Florida this year, and the 26th killed overall in the U.S. This already surpasses the 25 executions nationwide for all of last year.…
A small group of Jew-hating thugs attacked Manny’s, a café and community center in the Mission District of San Francisco, in the early evening June 9. The attack came as the café was hosting a meeting on San Francisco city…
NEW YORK — Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, a 20-year-old student originally from Ecuador who is enrolled in a GED program here, was greeted by family and friends July 16 at the Port Authority bus terminal. She had just been released after three…
BIRMINGHAM, England — A lively public meeting in support of striking Birmingham refuse workers, members of Unite, was organized by the Manchester Trades Union Council July 9. “Birmingham Council thinks the way out of their debt is to put workers…
Defense of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is not a religious question. It is a class and a national question, intertwined with the fight against national oppression across the globe. Israel’s right to exist…
DURHAM, England — Communist League members joined tens of thousands of trade unionists and others from the north of England, Scotland and elsewhere at the Durham Miners’ Gala July 12. The event included a contingent of striking refuse workers from…
