ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Nurses Association finally won a new contract with Albany Medical Center this August. For the last year and a half, union nurses have been on a campaign here to improve working conditions and…
Teamster Power by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Dobbs tells the story of how members of Teamsters Local 574 in Minneapolis wielded the union power they forged through three victorious 1934 strikes. With…
NEW YORK — Supporters of independence for Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule demonstrated here and in several other cities Aug. 31. The actions coincided with a march of several thousand in San Juan, Puerto Rico, sponsored by a coalition…
September 11, 2000 Through a militant strike against telecommunications giant Verizon, some 86,000 workers emerged victorious after two and a half weeks. Workers won a central demand—removing obstacles to the union’s ability to organize the fast-growing wireless division of the…
The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today is bearing down hardest on working-class families. High prices for basic necessities, including groceries, rent, electricity, medical care, child care, care for the elderly and more make it difficult to make ends meet. Under…
In the Russian Revolution and its defense against imperialist attack and capitalist-led civil war afterward, the V.I. Lenin-led Bolshevik Party put the fight against Jew-hatred at the center of its proletarian internationalist course. Today, reactionary leaders in the Ukraine government’s…
More workers today are speaking up, using unions and organizing solidarity. Opportunities to build and strengthen the labor movement continue to open up, which were reflected at Labor Day actions nationwide. Strikes by members of the United Auto Workers at…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has stepped up its murderous airstrikes on working people in Ukraine’s cities as it pursues its goal of conquering the country. It rebuffed attempts by President Donald Trump to broker an end to the conflict…
Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working-class road forward. Some 40 Air Canada flight attendants, part of the 10,000 Canadian…
