SAN FRANCISCO — After 93 days on the picket line, UNITE HERE Local 2 union members at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square voted Dec. 24 to ratify a new contract by 99.4%, ending the longest hotel strike in the…
In the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil, a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed at Muan International Airport Dec. 29, killing all but two of the 181 people on board. This has added to the escalating political crisis facing…
SPALDING, England — Members of Unite the Union at Bakkavor here marked 12 weeks of their strike with a 150-strong picket Dec. 20. Workers walked out Sept. 26 over a pay claim. The strike is now a battle over the…
Weeks of mass street demonstrations continue across the country of Georgia protesting the authoritarian pro-Moscow government led by the Georgian Dream party. Protesters are demanding a rerun of the October parliamentary elections, which they insist were rigged. Daily actions have…
Hundreds of shopkeepers at several bazaars in Tehran, above, shut down their stalls Dec. 29 and protested over soaring prices, skyrocketing rents, raw material shortages and government disdain. The protest began with fabric merchants and shoemakers and spread. The plummeting…
FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. In 1987 the SWP won its 15-year legal and political battle against decades of illegal FBI…
January 10, 2000 NEW YORK CITY — The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Dec. 16 that the cops charged with brutally gunning down Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old worker from Guinea, are to be tried in…
As 2024 came to a close, Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman insisted President-elect Donald Trump is “reviving aspects of the fascist tradition.” He also claims that Democrats lost the 2024 election because they “overestimated the depth of…
