Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a cruel and gruesome failed attempt by state officials to execute her Sept. 30 at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville. Pike…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on three towns in southwestern Kansas — Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal — at the end of September, stopping cars and making arrests of immigrant workers. Their operations were met by protests by…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out members of United Steelworkers Local 5 here are picketing 24/7 at the North and South Gates of Marathon’s biofuels refinery. Over 100 workers went on strike April 27 and then were locked out by Marathon bosses…
The 85th anniversary of the “Holocaust by bullets,” one of the worst single atrocities by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, was commemorated at Babyn Yar on the outskirts of Kyiv Sept. 29. Less than two weeks after the German imperialist army…
The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NGPU) issued an urgent appeal Oct. 2 for “strengthened international solidarity with Ukrainian workers and trade unions amid the continuing escalation of Russian attacks.” This follows a similar appeal two days earlier…
LONDON — Chanting, “They say cut back, we say fight back!” 40 cleaning and catering workers at Forest School in east London concluded their first ever week on strike with a militant picket line Oct. 2. Many of the low-paid…
MONTREAL — Some 50 people picketed in front of the busy Berri-UQAM subway station here Oct. 1 in an action in defense of Cuba called by the Quebec-Cuba Solidarity Roundtable. They called for the Canadian government to oppose the U.S.…
Is Biology Woman’s Destiny? by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Reed was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, an author and spokeswoman for the party in the 1960s and early ’70s in…
HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at an Aug. 14 presentation here of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of…
This is the second half of an article run last week, “1966 Mississippi ‘March Against Fear’ dealt new blows to bastion of Jim Crow,” marking the 60th anniversary of that march. It draws on an account by Stu Singer, who…
