LOWELL, Ind. — Some 200 oil workers locked out by BP, their family members and supporters made up a lively United Steelworkers Local 7-1 contingent in the Labor Day Parade here Sept. 7. They got an enthusiastic reception — as…
From his youth, Jerome Smith had dedicated his life to the fight to bring down Jim Crow segregation, where he grew up in New Orleans, as well as in the 1961 Freedom Rides across the South and the fight against…
SEATTLE — Hundreds of teachers, members of the Seattle Education Association, rallied here Sept. 1, the day before school reopened, to press their fight for a new contract. Parents, students, unionists and others gathered on the front lawn of Seattle…
NEWARK, Calif. — After a month on strike, picket lines at Cargill Salt are still up 24/7 in a hard-fought fight over wages and medical coverage. A key issue is the draconian monthly payments of $1,200 that workers have taken…
CHICAGO — More than 400 members of the National Nurses United union carried out a one-day strike Sept. 3 at the St. Mary of Nazareth hospital here and three other hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare in California and Nevada. Nurses…
MONTREAL — “When the acrimonious trade talks between Washington and Ottawa broke down Aug. 21, Prime Minister Mark Carney proclaimed: ‘We are at war.’ It wasn’t entirely an exaggeration,” Steve Penner, the organizer of the Communist League in Canada, told…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 150 people attended a political meeting and showing of “Cuba After Castro” at the Main Cinema here Aug. 26. The film, made by Abby Martin and Matthew Belen, is an interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who…
Pathfinder Press has launched a special sale of selected volumes of the collected writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, as well as the collected writings of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. The books are on sale for the special price…
Washington is relentlessly ratcheting up its political, economic and trade blockade against Cuba, raising the stakes for workers the world over to protest its drive to break the Cuban people. The U.S. government is making it harder and harder to…
Feminism and the Marxist Movement by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Marxists have always explained that the economic roots of women’s oppression are an integral part of the workings of capitalism. Only the…
