TORONTO — Some 5,600 Unifor members at Ford voted up a three-year contract negotiated by the union just hours before a strike deadline. The Sept. 24 vote was by the narrowest of margins — 54% to approve — despite bosses…
After months of economic blockade, Turkish-backed Azerbaijani forces attacked and seized the ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, inside Azerbaijan, Sept. 19. Russian troops, which Moscow had promised would defend the enclave’s sovereignty, made no move to do so. The rout…
Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, released Sept. 27. There is no better example of what workers are capable of accomplishing than Cuba’s socialist revolution. The power of that example for workers here…
TOLEDO, Ohio — United Auto Workers at the Stellantis Assembly Center here have been on strike since Sept. 15, along with autoworkers at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, and General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri. They’ve been joined by walkouts…
LOS ANGELES — A tentative settlement in the nearly five-month-long Writers Guild of America strike against the bosses’ Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was announced Sept. 24 after several days of talks between the union negotiating committee and…
OAKLAND, Calif. — “When the working class starts to stand up, as they’re doing today, everything changes. More workers start to think, what can I do?” Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, said at a…
LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a special Militant Labour Forum here Sept. 2. Silberman was speaking on behalf of the…
NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke about the impact Malcolm X had on a generation of youth and revolutionaries in Cuba during a visit to the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center here Sept.…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September is James P. Cannon As We Knew Him by Farrell Dobbs, Joseph Hansen, George Novack, Jean Tussey, Harry Braverman and 28 other contributors who knew and worked with him. The introduction…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Chanting “Say his name: Drew Washington!” 100 people marched and rallied at City Hall here Sept. 20 protesting the Aug. 27 police killing of Andrew Jerome Washington. He suffered from bipolar disorder. Handwritten signs included “Schizophrenia…
