LOS ANGELES — A series of protests took place around the city here and at Home Depot parking lots across the country July 1 to show support for workers targeted by government immigration raids and roundups. At a Home Depot…
LIVERPOOL, England — “We’ve seen powerful solidarity across the U.K. from different unions and communities. That support has lifted us because we know we’re not just fighting for ourselves,” Danny Taylor, a refuse worker and Unite steward representing hundreds of…
On July 1 an appeals court in Algeria upheld a harsh five-year jail sentence imposed on prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, a longtime and outspoken critic of Algerian government authoritarianism, Islamic fundamentalism and government attacks on freedom of expression.…
NEW YORK — At a June 28 program here, sponsored by the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, Bob Schwartz, executive director of Global Health Partners, announced a national effort to raise $150,000 to send 150 pacemakers to Cuba. The…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Karen Diamond was one of those severely burned in Boulder, Colorado, in a Jew-hating firebombing of a peaceful weekly Run for Their Lives vigil June 1 demanding the release of Israeli and other hostages held by Hamas…
Stalinist and other “left” groups in the U.S. and elsewhere that support the reactionary regime in Iran and its “axis of resistance” went into action in June to denounce Israel’s defensive strikes aimed at destroying Tehran’s capacity to build nuclear…
In the wake of the powerful blows struck by Israel in its 12-day war against Tehran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile programs, the reactionary regime in Tehran has arrested more than 1,000 people, including Afghan immigrants, Arabs, members of the Baha’i…
Cuba’s Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80, by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Castro was the central leader of the Rebel Army, victorious 1959 popular insurrection and the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Excerpted…
The Socialist Workers Party is running a national slate of candidates for office, joining union struggles, defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jews and fighting to unify the working class, as it presents a working-class road…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 10,000 city workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, walked off the job July 1. The union represents sanitation workers, 911 emergency call center dispatchers, library assistants, as well…
