Damage to the engineer’s cabin on an electric train in the Kharkiv region, above, by a Russian drone attack Aug. 23 is part of a growing wave of systematic attacks by Moscow on Ukrainian passenger trains. On Sept. 8, attack…
MONTREAL — The federal Liberal Party government of Mark Carney is leading a new round of attacks against immigrant workers in Canada, with political leaders at all levels of government following its lead. These attacks are meeting significant opposition from…
MINNEAPOLIS — Over 60 hospice care workers, members of SEIU Healthcare of Minnesota and Iowa, began a seven-day strike Sept. 11 against Allina Health. These nurses provide end-of-life care in patient homes, assisted living centers and other facilities. A spirited…
Hundreds of Mexican long-haul truck drivers organized protests on their side of the U.S.-Mexico border Sept. 3-7. Drivers used their semis and other means to block the commercial crossings between Mexicali, in Baja California, Mexico, and Calexico, just across the…
ABINGDON, Va. — “It’s critically important to tell your stories,” Brandon Crum, a radiologist from Pikeville, Kentucky, told the more than 100 coal miners and others gathered at the National Black Lung Association meeting here Sept. 11. “We have momentum…
The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. The excerpt is from the opening section…
The U.S. rulers, with the aid of their Democratic and Republican parties, are at the forefront of conflicts among rival capitalist powers that are marching humanity toward a third world war, as the imperialists have done twice before since the…
Beijing continues to tighten the noose around free political expression in Hong Kong. For years, this had been the only place in China where public rallies could be held to commemorate Beijing’s 1989 military slaughter of Tiananmen Square protesters and…
“Redefining Your Silhouette” is the innocuous-sounding way one hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, advertised taking a scalpel to women’s bodies. What they’re talking about is “rib remodeling,” an invasive medical procedure promising to give women of all ages an “hourglass figure,”…
Just hours after Dolly Parton’s death Aug. 25, a cowardly anonymous vandal imposed a swastika on her photo on Wikipedia, along with the words, “Jew lover.” A look at Parton’s long history shows she was an unapologetic opponent of Jew-hatred…
