January 15, 2001 DES MOINES, Iowa — In a victory for working people, workers at the ConAgra sausage processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska, voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. This is the second union victory in…
In the early morning Jan. 3 Venezuelans in Caracas and surrounding areas were awakened by explosions and aircraft flying overhead as U.S. forces carried out a murderous military assault aimed at forcing Venezuela’s government to submit to Washington’s imperialist dictates.…
The Iranian regime’s Tasnim News claimed Jan. 6 that protests that began among shopkeepers in the bazaar in Tehran Dec. 28 and then spread across the country — including to small towns and universities — were now “moving toward complete…
At night on Dec. 27, the mayor of Arraiján, an upscale suburb of Panama City, sent bulldozers to demolish a monument built in 2004 to pay tribute to the thousands of Chinese laborers who died building the first railroad crossing…
Nissen Huts When we visited Cyprus, we went to the Jewish Museum, where the exhibit — “The Nissen Hut” — shows a tin hut and a small reproduction of the detention camps the British Army used to house the thousands of…
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The Spanish Revolution was an uprising by workers and peasants against Gen. Francisco Franco’s 1936 military coup, backed by landlords and capitalists.…
“The crisis of capitalism today is driving the imperialist powers toward a new and even more devastating third world war,” explains the Socialist Workers Party National Committee in its Jan. 3 statement “Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela’s Sovereignty! US Out…
The sizable U.S. military assault that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Jan. 3 was the culmination of months of escalating war moves by Washington. President Donald Trump says his administration will now “run” the country and seize the profits of…
As they woke up to the news that Washington had invaded Venezuela Jan. 3, SWP members organized to seek out and join protests against the assault, encouraging people they knew to join in too. They also campaigned widely in working-class…
MINNEAPOLIS. — Chanting “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (The people united will never be defeated), thousands marched here Dec. 20 protesting recent arrests of immigrant workers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including in Latino and Somali communities along the …
