ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Nurses Association finally won a new contract with Albany Medical Center this August. For the last year and a half, union nurses have been on a campaign here to improve working conditions and…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “The imperialist epoch we are living through today is characterized by deepening cutthroat competition between rival powers for resources, markets and labor to exploit,” Norton Sandler, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told…
MONTREAL — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Aug. 23-27 working trip to Europe — with stops in Poland, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine — demonstrated his Liberal government aims to advance its position as an imperialist world power. It goes alongside…
From left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, Sept. 1. Xi and Putin claim their alliances are a “multipolar” alternative to Washington’s…
BALTIMORE — After 170 days in prison in both the U.S. and El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego García won his fight to be released from prison on parole Aug. 22. The wrongfully detained 30-year-old apprentice sheet metal worker and member of…
In the latest move by Washington to tighten its brutal economic war against Cuba, the U.S. government revoked visas from officials in Brazil who had helped expand Cuba’s international medical missions there. Since 1963 Cuba’s revolutionary government has organized doctors…
The reactionary regime in Iran arrested some 21,000 people during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, setting up more than 1,000 roadblocks across the country in a crackdown on “crime” and political dissidents, a police department spokesperson…
President Donald Trump met with government leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House Aug. 8 and they signed a joint declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict and wars between the two former Soviet republics. The…
MONTREAL — Since Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, attacks on Jews in Canada have grown. B’nai Brith Canada reports 6,219 incidents of Jew-hatred across the country in 2024, more than double the number in 2022. The attacks…
We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta in…
