Protests spread against ‘Russian law’ in Georgia

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
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Some 20,000 people, mainly young, protested in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, April 18, chanting, “No to the Russian law!” The former Soviet republic bordering Russia on the Black Sea has been rocked for days by demonstrations opposing the ruling Georgian Dream…


Russia’s socialist revolution posed the road forward everywhere

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Delegates to the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 1920. “Soviet Russia is the fortress of the world revolution,” James P. Cannon said. It “inspires and strengthens the movement of the workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.”

The Left Opposition in the U.S.: Writings and Speeches, 1928-31 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Cannon was won to the political course of the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Bolshevik…


The opening guns of World War III

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The U.S. rulers’ 1991 war on Iraq, and their inability to decisively win it, sounded the opening guns of World War III. It announced that the world order born out of Washington’s emergence as the top dog in World War…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand the federal government do something about worsening conditions they face. Much of…


Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly for UAW

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Autoworkers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, celebrate announcement of 73% vote for UAW April 19. Victory gives impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere.

In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…


Support Israel as refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…


Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at campaign rally in Fort Worth April 20. “The future of humanity depends on the U.S. working class taking power away from the capitalist rulers and starting down the road to a socialist revolution,” she said.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We’ve been on strike going on nine weeks. We have a lot of union support, but we need more,” Rick Miedema, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 997 on strike at Molson Coors big brewery here, told Socialist…


Workers hit with rising medical care costs as bosses boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Brookdale Senior Living residents in Shawnee, Kansas, December 2023. Bosses of nationwide assisted living chain use algorithms to make staff cuts, limit time per patient to ramp up profits.

Increasing numbers of working people are finding themselves unable to cover the exorbitant costs of health care for their family. This is because under capitalism medical care is treated like every other industry, a way to generate profit, not to…