Events are being held around the world to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the July 26th attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in Cuba. They mark the opening battle of a revolutionary uprising that would lead…
July 31, 2000 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization held hearings here July 12 on the colonial status of Puerto Rico and approved a resolution that “reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico…
MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stockton in Northern California. The company’s garbage truck drivers, members of the same local, are…
STILLWATER, Minn. — Over 80 members of Service Employees International Union Minnesota & Iowa held a four-day strike here July 8-11 as they fight for a contract from HealthPartners SMG clinic. The strikers are licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants…
In an important victory for the rights of immigrant workers and for the union movement, International Association of Machinists Local 695 member Maximo Londonio, with hand raised, was released July 11 from the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center…
The two major labor unions in Ukraine — the Federation of Trade Unions (FPU) and the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU) — issued a joint appeal July 7. It calls on the international labor movement to respond to Moscow’s…
President Donald Trump hosted talks with the presidents of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal at the White House July 9 to discuss what U.S. officials called “incredible commercial opportunities.” In reality, the U.S. capitalist rulers are seeking to corner…
The reactionary regime in Iran approved a law July 12 to “intensify punishment for espionage and collaboration with the Zionist regime and hostile countries against national security and interests.” The bill is actually aimed at framing up and terrorizing anyone…
Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Novack, who was a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party, traces the advances and contradictions of empiricism, the ideological…
Defense of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is not a religious question. It is a class and a national question, intertwined with the fight against national oppression across the globe. Israel’s right to exist…
