Members of Unifor Local 101R at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway have voted by 99% to authorize strike action. On Jan. 27, two days before the workers were set to walk out, CPKC announced a tentative four-year contract had been…
Join our fight to overturn the unconstitutional ban of Militant issue no. 42 by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona. Letters have been arriving at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office from…
MONTREAL — In the first of a possible five days of strikes, almost 13,000 workers from 400 government child care facilities rallied and marched in cities and towns across Quebec Jan. 23. They are demanding the government negotiate a union…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term Jan. 10 has heightened discussions in U.S. ruling-class circles about what Washington’s next moves on the country should be. In July, Maduro was declared the winner of a highly polarized…
“Who are we? Teamsters. What do we want? A contract. When do we want it? Now. If we don’t get it? Shut them down,” shouted dozens of Costco workers, members of the Warehouse Division of the Teamsters union, at a…
As the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, murderous war against Ukraine approaches, more and more of the country’s men have been called on to defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand. This has meant substantially greater numbers of…
“Why the Socialist Workers Party is defying the far left on Israel,” is the headline of a Jan. 21 article by contributing editor Dan Pine in the Jewish News of Northern California. The paper, first published in 1895, reaches tens…
On Jan. 22 Amazon announced it is closing all seven of its distribution centers in Quebec in the next two months. This will cost the jobs of over 3,000 workers — 1,950 who work directly for Amazon and 1,459 at…
A one-day strike shut down businesses and schools all across the Kurdish region of Iran Jan. 22, demanding the revocation of death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and Warisheh Moradi. These two Kurdish women are accused by Tehran of belonging to…
The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In 1983 Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta, bringing to power a…
