Fight for shorter workweek with no pay cut to put us back to work!

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

Workers today face an ongoing struggle for jobs, safe working conditions and enough pay to survive. Some are locked out or are on strike over boss demands to worsen workers’ conditions, including at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama,…


Quebec strikers need solidarity in fight against Olymel bosses

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Members of CSN union on strike against Olymel hog slaughterhouse in Vallee-Jonction, Quebec, meet, discuss and vote down arbitrator’s proposal Aug. 3. Company demanded union officials recommend the arbitrator’s offer to members. They refused and workers rejected it.

VALLEE-JONCTION, Quebec — In the most important union fight taking place in the province, union officials and bosses at the Olymel hog slaughterhouse here announced another tentative agreement Aug. 14. Five days earlier, 1,050 workers who’ve been on strike since…


Chicago auto mechanics strike car dealers to defend union, pay

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

CHICAGO — More than 800 auto mechanics at 56 new car dealerships have been walking picket lines around the Chicago metro area since Aug. 2. The day before, International Association of Machinists Automobile Mechanics Union Local 701 members rejected contract…


Canada nickel strikers defeat Vale takeback drive

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

Some 2,400 striking nickel miners, and mill and smelter workers returned to work at Vale International S.A. in Sudbury, Ontario, Aug. 9 after pushing back the bosses’ attempt to eliminate retiree health benefits for new hires. Under the slogan “Local…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

September 2, 1996 Leading the bipartisan assault against a half century of social gains by working people, President William Clinton announced July 31 that he will sign the new “welfare reform” bill adopted by the U.S. Congress. By eliminating federally…


Stalin school of falsification led attack against Bolshevism

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
V.I. Lenin, above left, leader of Russian Revolution, pictured alongside Leon Trotsky, commander of Soviet Red Army, Nov. 7, 1919. Inset, Joseph Stalin ordered Trotsky and others crudely airbrushed out of history as his bureaucratic machine prepared purge of those revolutionary leaders fighting for Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course.

The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Trotsky was part of the central leadership of the mighty Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution of 1917 that transformed world history. He was part…


Presidential election in Peru reflects rising class tensions

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Hundreds wait in long lines attempting to get a COVID-19 vaccine in San Martín de Porres district in Lima, Peru, July 4. Peru has the world’s worst per capita death toll from the virus.

Pedro Castillo, Peru’s newly elected president, took office July 28 in the midst of sharp political polarization and rising class tensions fed by a deepening economic and social crisis. Castillo, the candidate of Peru Libré (Free Peru), a party on…


‘Fidel belongs to the working people of the world’

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

The following letter was sent by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes to Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, on Nov. 27, 2016, after the death two days earlier of Fidel Castro, his brother…


Texas refinery workers fight ExxonMobil bosses’ lockout

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

DALLAS — Some 650 oil workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243, have been locked out of their jobs at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant in Beaumont, Texas, for over three months. They’ve maintained picket lines…


‘Workers need to build a party to lead fight for political power’

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for governor of California, talks with high school student Marcus Connelly at L.A. Walmart Aug. 5. Connelly said U.S. government should have made sure everyone could get vaccinated and jabs were given “to poor countries around the world.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are taking the party’s working-class politics far and wide, exchanging views and experiences with working people on their doorsteps, at strike picket lines and social protests. Workers and farmers are seeking ways we…