IBEW’s 8-day strike at Duquesne Light in Pittsburgh makes gains

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members rally at Duquesne Light’s Woods Run facility in Pittsburgh Oct. 7 during strike over work hours, safety and union rights.

PITTSBURGH — Some 1,000 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29 members returned to work at Duquesne Light Co. after an eight-day strike, the first walkout in over 50 years. Details of the contract have not come out publicly, but…



Hamas in its own words: Jew-hatred, genocide and anti-communism

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Oct. 7, 2026, commemoration at site of Nova festival in southern Israel where Hamas thugs murdered 378 people, took hostages and raped and mutilated women three years earlier. Hamas vows this won’t be the last pogrom. “Everything we do is justified,” said Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad.

The following is an appendix to The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Copyright © 2024 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. Whatever opinion an individual might have of Hamas and…



NY Mayor Mamdani’s remarks Oct. 7 attack Jews, Israel

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a message Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the bloody Hamas pogrom in Israel, the biggest assault on Jews since the Holocaust. But he focused not on that atrocity, but on slanders against…


Join campaign to get out book on Cuba, Africa

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

The U.S. imperialist rulers, with their Democratic and Republican parties in tow, are working nonstop to try to poison the minds of working people about Cuba as they intensify their drive to starve the Cuban people into submission and crush…


200 join Montreal vigil marking Hamas pogrom

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

MONTREAL — Some 200 people gathered here Oct. 7 in a vigil organized by several Jewish student organizations at both McGill and Concordia — Israel on Campus, Jewish Law Student Association and the Medical & Dental Jewish Student Association —…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

October 22, 2001 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Picket lines remain strong as more than 22,000 state workers remain on strike in Minnesota. Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees…



After botched execution, Christa Pike wakes up shackled to a bed

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Ambulance outside Tennessee death row forced to wait half hour to take Christa Pike to hospital after botched execution Sept. 30. Prison officials claimed they hadn’t called for one.

Christa Pike is back on death row in Tennessee after two torturous botched execution attempts Sept. 30 left her unconscious, but alive. Despite executioners stabbing at her body, attempting to inject two vials of the lethal drug pentobarbital in her…