Fighting for workers to take control of production and transportation, including the railroads, is vital to protecting our lives and limbs and extending that protection to all who live near the plants, rail tracks and mines where we work. In…
Working people today face a world of deepening capitalist disorder and escalating competition over profits, markets and political influence, as well as a deepening war drive gripping all the major rival world powers. Two recent watershed developments — Moscow’s 2022…
Striking teachers and aides in Newton, Massachusetts, returned to their classrooms Feb. 5 after winning a new contract with solid gains in wages and benefits. Their union, the Newton Teachers Association, didn’t get everything it wanted, but by going on…
Freedom of speech, assembly and worship and other rights working people need and use were won as a result of revolutionary struggles — the War of Independence, the Second American Revolution that overturned slavery and in many class battles since…
LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Over 400 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000, ratified a new, improved contract at three Macy’s stores in Washington Jan. 29 after strike actions at Alderwood, Southcenter and Bellingham malls. Strikers distributed leaflets…
Long lines of French farmers driving their tractors blocked traffic around Paris and across France Jan. 29, demanding the government of President Emmanuel Macron and European Union officials put an end to policies that threaten their livelihoods. Faced with skyrocketing…
Teachers and aides on strike in Newton, Massachusetts, remain solid on the picket lines in the longest teachers strike in recent state history. The Newton Teachers Association members voted by 98% to strike Jan. 18, after more than a year…
Moscow has stepped up its deadly aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities, bombarding apartment buildings, schools, energy infrastructure and other civilian targets in hopes of demoralizing working people fighting to defend their country’s independence. But Ukrainian workers are determined to beat…
SYDNEY — Members of the Communist League and supporters of the Militant joined the Yabun Festival here Jan. 26, an annual event that celebrates the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia. They set up a table…
America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. This excerpt is from the chapter “The Civil War — Its Place in History.” It explains the revolutionary character of both the…
