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…
Millions of people across Cuba were without electricity over several days as the island was hit by a fourth nationwide blackout Oct. 20. The Cuban power grid repeatedly collapsed, choking the economy and making daily life a challenge. This energy…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We started with no supplies, but within a few days we had to open a warehouse to hold all the contributions that were pouring in for victims of the hurricane,” Isabel Beteta told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist…
November 8, 1999 DES MOINES — A fund-raising meeting to aid in the production and distribution of the titles printed and distributed by Pathfinder Press was held here October 23. The featured speaker was Migdalia Jiménez, a member of the…
RENTON, Wash. — The 33,000 Machinists at Boeing voted Oct. 23 on a third contract offer from Boeing. It includes a 35% pay hike over four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and an increase in the company’s contribution to the…
