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…
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…
Protests over dire economic and social conditions, lack of jobs and little confidence in a better future facing working people, especially youth, have erupted throughout the North African country of Morocco. The demonstrations, which began Sept. 27, quickly spread to…
MANCHESTER, England — “We are not Jews trembling on our knees,” Raphi Bloom, a leader of the Jewish community here, told more than 1,000 people gathered in the city’s center Oct. 5 to protest the killing of two Jews, Adrian…
NEW YORK — “The working class is not getting what we need. Wages aren’t enough. Health care is going down the drain,” retired fireman Mike Morale told Paul Mailhot, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, Oct. 5. Mailhot was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
