HUMACAO, Puerto Rico — The fight by fishermen here for a ramp that would make launching and beaching their small fishing boats qualitatively easier, spotlights some of the challenges facing the working class in Puerto Rico. It also provides a…
UNITED NATIONS — After two days of often acrimonious debate by the United Nations General Assembly Oct. 27-28, the body voted overwhelmingly to pass a motion submitted by Cuba — “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed…
The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpt is from the Preface written by Trotsky, a central leader of the revolution and the Bolshevik Party under V.I.…
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color took place here Oct. 7-11, with more than 800 attendees from libraries around the country. Younger Latinos, Blacks, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders made up the bulk of the…
November 5, 2001 Washington is stepping up its daily bombardment of Afghanistan and its use of troops inside the country, as it drives to impose a protectorate there. Punishing air assaults from bombers, fighters, and AC-130 gunships targeting front-line Afghan…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — More than 50 Workers First Union members walked out of the Ikea store here Oct. 24 and set up a picket line to demand better pay and working conditions. Their yellow uniforms caught the eye on…
TROIS RIVIERES, Quebec — “They were expecting we would enter on our knees but the union is strong,” striker Lucas Breton-Daigle, who has worked five years at the Siemens plant here, told this Militant correspondent on the picket line Oct.…
After a landslide in the Gorkha district in the Himalayas about 60 miles west of Kathmandu blocked the Budhi Gandaki River, causing downstream flooding Oct. 11, authorities in Nepal urged villagers to move to higher ground. Rapidly rising river floodwaters…
