ALBANY, N.Y. — At the Capital District Area Labor Federation’s Annual Gala Oct. 11, Save the Burdett Birth Center Coalition received the federation’s Solidarity Award. Ashley Saupp, a leader of the coalition, said they could not have succeeded without the…
MONTREAL — Port and railroad union members in Quebec and across Canada are fighting for better pay to cope with high prices and more livable schedules. On Oct. 7, Longshoremen’s Union Local 375, an affiliate of Canadian Union of Public…
MONTREAL — Over 100 locked-out Prelco workers and their supporters gathered in front of this industrial glass manufacturer here Oct. 18 for a solidarity concert and food. The 90 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) have been…
The attempts by liberals and the middle-class left to eradicate Columbus Day, a national holiday in October since 1937, honoring 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus, along with statues and other tributes to Columbus, stepped up this year. These ahistorical political forces…
NEW YORK — Proposition 1, often referred to by its Democratic Party boosters as the “Equal Rights Amendment” or the “Equal Protection of the Law Amendment,” will be on the ballot in New York Nov. 5. The measure is being…
BOSTON — The “Make them pay!” chants, blaring air horns and drumming of the UNITE HERE Local 26 strikers can be heard blocks away from the Downtown Theater District here. Three weeks into their strike at the Hilton Park Plaza…
HAVANA — Countless expressions of working-class solidarity have spread across Cuba, accompanying government efforts to confront the impact of two recent major emergencies — a three-day collapse of the national electrical grid and the damage caused by Hurricane Oscar in…
PLANT CITY, Fla. — Dennis Richter, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, talks with Plant City farmer Karl Butts, Oct. 17. One hundred mph winds from recent storms wreaked havoc on what only two weeks earlier had…
Iran rulers’ threats to Israel and Jews imperil all working people ATLANTA — “Oct. 7 was a declaration of war against the existence of Israel, a refuge for 7 million Jews and home to 2 million Palestinians and Arabs,” Rachele…
Pathfinder Was Born with the October Revolution by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpts below are based on Waters’ presentation to a conference on “Political and Social Publishing in the 1990s,” held…
