MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — In September 2024 workers at the Walmart distribution center on the outskirts of Toronto voted to make Unifor their union by 56%. Over 800 workers here pack and deliver products to Walmart stores all over Ontario. Now…
LIVERPOOL, England — “We’ve seen powerful solidarity across the U.K. from different unions and communities. That support has lifted us because we know we’re not just fighting for ourselves,” Danny Taylor, a refuse worker and Unite steward representing hundreds of…
MIAMI — Federal Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York issued a ruling July 1 blocking the Trump administration’s order terminating the long-running Temporary Protected Status that kept Haitian immigrants from being deported. He held that the…
On July 1 an appeals court in Algeria upheld a harsh five-year jail sentence imposed on prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, a longtime and outspoken critic of Algerian government authoritarianism, Islamic fundamentalism and government attacks on freedom of expression.…
In one of the largest expressions of social unrest since Moscow invaded Ukraine over three years ago, thousands rallied in Russia’s Altai Republic June 21 to protest Kremlin-organized “reforms” that end local self-government and attack the rights and cultural heritage…
NEW YORK — At a June 28 program here, sponsored by the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, Bob Schwartz, executive director of Global Health Partners, announced a national effort to raise $150,000 to send 150 pacemakers to Cuba. The…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Karen Diamond was one of those severely burned in Boulder, Colorado, in a Jew-hating firebombing of a peaceful weekly Run for Their Lives vigil June 1 demanding the release of Israeli and other hostages held by Hamas…
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…
