PHILADELPHIA — Several hundred people filled the block outside Das Good Cafe in the Germantown neighborhood here Aug. 9 chanting “Bring Anou home!” and “Who’s our neighbor? Anou’s our neighbor!” The rally protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention of co-owner…
AMBRIDGE, Pa. — More than 50 people gathered here Aug. 1 to protest a combined local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation the night before, which led to the arrest of at least 10 people. The police and county…
SEATTLE — The Socialist Workers Party candidates here, Rebecca Williamson for King County Executive and Jacob Perasso for mayor, participated in a candidates’ forum at the Filipino Community Center July 30 organized by the King County International Airport Community Coalition.…
Six weeks into their strike, over 400 sanitation workers at Republic Services in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia are fighting for better wages and lower health care costs. The strikers, members of the Teamsters, face a bosses’ strikebreaking operation and need…
Attacks on synagogues in Australia, Canada and elsewhere over recent weeks highlight the stakes in the fight to defend Israel as a refuge for Jews, to advance the working-class fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms. In British Columbia, Canada, someone scrawled…
After a heated 10-hour debate Aug. 8, the Israeli government approved a new offensive aimed at decisively defeating Hamas and extending Israeli military control over all of Gaza. The Security Cabinet voted to instruct the Israeli army to take over…
VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Seven weeks into their strike against Airgas, Teamsters members here who fill and haul gas tanks are determined to win contracts with wage increases and improved health care. The Teamsters are on strike in Ohio, New…
More support for the SWP I am writing from Memphis, Tennessee, with a fun anecdote. I was talking with a new friend and learned he and his family are from Grenada. His father has some memorabilia from the revolution, including…
August 21, 2000 PRETORIA, South Africa — “Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa,” Nelson Mandela told delegates at the 13th international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. “Decades have been chopped from life…
The Case of Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. It contains Trotsky’s testimony before the 1937 Dewey Commission investigating frame-up charges made against him in the infamous Moscow Trials. Central leaders of the 1917…
