Airline kitchen workers protest in Los Angeles, other cities

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Workers at LSG Sky Chefs, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, marched and chanted at the airport demanding the bosses agree to a union contract that includes higher wages, better benefits, pensions, as well as dignity and…


San Jose transit workers reject contract, continue strike

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
San Jose transit workers reject contract, continue strike

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As they entered the third week of their strike here, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265 voted by 83% to reject the latest offer by the Valley Transportation Authority March 24. The vote reflects widespread…


Communist League launches election campaign in Australia

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

SYDNEY — “The capitalist rulers have no solution to their unfolding world crisis except to place the burden onto working people, as they prepare for more wars over markets and resources,” Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for Australia’s Senate,…


Workers in Dominican Republic fight for pensions

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
Luchan por pensiones en República Dominicana

LOS BAJOS DE HAINA, Dominican Republic — Some 100 workers came to a March 22 meeting here organized by Jesús Nuñez, at right,  national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union. The weekly meetings began at the end of January as…


Serbian protests hit gov’t, NATO, Moscow interference

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
Serbian protests hit gov"t, NATO, Moscow interference

Thousands turned out in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, March 24 to protest plans to develop a luxury complex at the site of a former army headquarters destroyed during the 1999 NATO bombing. This marked the anniversary of the U.S.-led 78-day campaign…



‘Decisive battles for future of humanity will be fought in the US’

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
Some 20,000 GIs meeting in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 15, 1946, demand they be demobilized and sent home. Protests prevented U.S. rulers, who emerged as victors out of the imperialist slaughter, from plan to send troops against revolutions unfolding in China, elsewhere in Asia.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is The Struggle for Socialism in the “American Century”: Writings and Speeches, 1945-47 by James P. Cannon, then national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The U.S. rulers, after a bloody…


The road to unify the working class

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

As the capitalist crisis deepens today, workers increasingly confront how can we come together to use the full strength of the working class and our unions to stand up to the employers’ assaults on our wages and working conditions and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

April 3, 2000 CHICAGO — The AFL-CIO women’s conference here drew 4,000 women. The conference was stamped by women who are in the middle of union battles. The large turnout registers the deepening resistance of working people to the employers’…


Massive action in Belgrade topples government

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025

Over 100,000 demonstrators poured into the streets of Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, March 15, capping four months of protests sparked by a train station’s roof collapse in the city of Novi Sad Nov. 1 that killed 15 people. Accusations of widespread…