Solidarity from the labor movement and fellow workers is needed now for over 400 striking Teamsters at Republic Services and 3,200 International Association of Machinists members on strike at Boeing. Teamsters at Republic in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia, as well…
American Labor Struggles: 1877-1934 by Samuel Yellen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The excerpt below is from “The railroad uprisings of 1877.” Known as the Great Strike, it was sparked by starvation wages and brutal…
Oil workers at 50 refineries and offshore platforms in Iran took to the streets Aug. 4 demanding higher wages, benefits and job safety. Above, Pars Oil and Gas Company platform. In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a murderous war on working people in cities all over Ukraine. At the same time, he willingly sacrifices thousands of Russian toilers in suicidal “meat grinder” attacks on Ukraine positions in the Donetsk region…
CHICAGO — “Welcome to the new campaign headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party and Militant Labor Forum Hall!” Naomi Craine, a leader of the Chicago branch of the SWP, said, as she introduced featured speaker Minneapolis SWP mayoral candidate Kevin…
Some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 went on strike Aug. 4 at three Boeing facilities in Missouri and Illinois, after voting down the company’s second inadequate contract offer in two weeks. The workers…
The deepening economic challenges China’s state capitalist rulers face today are being exacerbated by a sharp fall in the country’s birth rate, which is becoming one of the most rapid in the world. This has led to a massive contraction…
MONTREAL — In a strong pushback against Canada Post bosses and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government, close to 70% of Canada’s 55,000 postal workers rejected the bosses’ “final” contract proposal. The results were announced Aug. 1, after members of…
NEW YORK — “The assault on the Moncada Barracks by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro electrified the Cuban people,” Martín Koppel told an Aug. 2 Militant Labor Forum marking the anniversary of the July 26, 1953, attack. The bold…
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 100 people from across North America took part in an online webinar July 31 answering Washington’s lies about Cuba’s international health missions and to raise funds for the “From Our Hearts to Cuban Hearts” campaign…
