MONTREAL — Some 51,000 teachers in Alberta walked off the job Oct. 6 in a fight against overcrowded classrooms and the erosion of public education, and for wages that keep up with inflation. They had previously voted by close to…
October 16, 2000 The labor movement needs to defend the rights of immigrant workers, from protesting the violent assault on two workers in Long Island, New York, to opposing the factory raids and deportations carried out daily by the U.S.…
ABINGDON, Va. — Some 80 people attended the annual National Black Lung Association conference here Oct. 3, the first time it’s been held in Virginia. “We demand the Department of Labor enforce the new silica rule,” Vonda Robinson, vice president…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A severe earthquake rocked the Philippines island province of Cebu Sept. 30. Its aftermath became a social catastrophe for tens of thousands of working people in the region. Two days after the 6.9-magnitude quake, the death…
Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso. He had been won to Marxism before…
Thousands gathered across the U.S., in Israel and around the world Oct. 7 to mark the second anniversary of the deadly pogrom carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas and to demand the release of all the remaining hostages. Hamas thugs murdered…
DECATUR, Ga. — “This is the best booth here!” more than one participant at the Oct. 4 Decatur Book Festival told volunteers staffing the Pathfinder Books booth from Atlanta. The one-day event in this Atlanta suburb was attended by thousands…
Under both the current Republican and former Democratic administration, the U.S. capitalist rulers have sharply stepped up their economic and military moves against Venezuela, and in Latin America more broadly, seeking to strengthen Washington’s alliances in the fierce competition they’re…
CHICAGO — In July, Union Pacific Railroad announced plans to take over Norfolk Southern. The $85 billion merger deal, if approved by government regulators, would form the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S., moving some 40% of the nation’s rail…
