BROCKVILLE, Ontario — Morale remains high on the picket line of provincial government workers in front of the Brockville and Area Community Living Association here, where members of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 441 have been on strike since…
ATLANTA — The 90 workers who operate and maintain the Plane Train at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have ratified their first union contract, the Transportation Communications Union/International Association of Machinists announced July 17. They had voted to join that union…
ELYRIA, Ohio — United Auto Workers Local 2192 members have been on strike against Lorain County Job and Family Services for over five months, with no resolution in sight. The over 100 UAW case workers walked off the job Feb.…
Lee Oleson Lee Oleson, a member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for five decades, died July 12 in East Orange, New Jersey, after battling long-term health challenges. He was 81 years old. Lee was one of hundreds of…
August 13, 2001 “Twenty years ago I didn’t think this could happen. This is truly a historic day,” said Carlos Zenón, a leader of fishermen and resident of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Zenón was celebrating a victory in the struggle to…
Steps by the imperialist rulers in Washington toward new wars have always been accompanied by attacks on the unions and on essential constitutional rights of free speech, political activity free from government interference and other protections in the Bill of…
W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890-1919, edited by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfiinder’s Books of the Month. The selection, “We claim our rights,” is one of the historic statements on the rights of Blacks in the…
NEW YORK — Some 50 members of the American Postal Workers Union and their supporters rallied at the James A. Farley Post Office here July 28. Joseph Martir, president of the New York Metro Area APWU, told the crowd that…
Thousands of youth gathered in a protest zone in central New Delhi let out a cheer July 25 upon hearing that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had resigned in face of a growing movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party. The…
This is a shortened version of the talk given by Jonathan Silberman at the “Contemporary Antisemitism” conference in Haifa, Israel, July 7-9. Silberman is director of Pathfinder Books in London and a leader of the Communist League in the U.K.…
