We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta in…
MONTREAL — Since Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, attacks on Jews in Canada have grown. B’nai Brith Canada reports 6,219 incidents of Jew-hatred across the country in 2024, more than double the number in 2022. The attacks…
President Donald Trump met with government leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House Aug. 8 and they signed a joint declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict and wars between the two former Soviet republics. The…
The reactionary regime in Iran arrested some 21,000 people during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, setting up more than 1,000 roadblocks across the country in a crackdown on “crime” and political dissidents, a police department spokesperson…
In the latest move by Washington to tighten its brutal economic war against Cuba, the U.S. government revoked visas from officials in Brazil who had helped expand Cuba’s international medical missions there. Since 1963 Cuba’s revolutionary government has organized doctors…
CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…
DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…
LAVAL, Quebec — Following their Friday general assembly, it was hot dogs and ice cream on the picket line Aug. 8 for members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the Heroux-Devtek aerospace company here. The bosses locked…
BIRMINGHAM, England — “I’m determined to stay to the end of this fight,” striker Derek Roberts said as he and some 30 other strikers maintained a protest picket line at the Lifford Lane refuse depot here Aug. 7. Several hundred…
