July 17, 2000 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minnesota — With two and half weeks left before workers at Dakota Premium Foods will vote to decide whether or not they will be members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, tensions…
SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party members have collected 757 signatures, over the goal of 750, to put Kevin Dwire, the SWP’s…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hospital workers ended a strike at University of California Benioff Children’s Hospital here June 30 after a judge denied a motion by their union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, for an injunction to halt the University…
GREENBELT, Md. — “We stand here as union brothers and sisters saying an injury to one is an injury to all. Whether you’re a teacher here in Prince Georges County, an iron worker or a hotel worker, we are all…
Stalinist and other “left” groups in the U.S. and elsewhere that support the reactionary regime in Iran and its “axis of resistance” went into action in June to denounce Israel’s defensive strikes aimed at destroying Tehran’s capacity to build nuclear…
In the wake of the powerful blows struck by Israel in its 12-day war against Tehran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile programs, the reactionary regime in Tehran has arrested more than 1,000 people, including Afghan immigrants, Arabs, members of the Baha’i…
Cuba’s Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80, by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Castro was the central leader of the Rebel Army, victorious 1959 popular insurrection and the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Excerpted…
The Socialist Workers Party is running a national slate of candidates for office, joining union struggles, defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jews and fighting to unify the working class, as it presents a working-class road…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 10,000 city workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, walked off the job July 1. The union represents sanitation workers, 911 emergency call center dispatchers, library assistants, as well…
On June 27, Robert E. McGuire, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, approved an emergency appeal by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal apprentice and SMART union member from Maryland. Abrego Garcia is being held in immigration…
