Clara Maass nurses in NJ fight for contract, increased staffing

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Hundreds of nurses, members of 1199SEIU, rally for their first union contract May 16 at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey. Union is demanding safe staffing, higher pay.

BELLEVILLE, N.J. — “Safe staffing and fair pay, this is the way!” was among the signs at a rally of hundreds of nurses outside Clara Maass Medical Center here May 16. Last August 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East won nearly…


Durham report details attacks by Democrats, FBI on rights

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

Department of Justice special counsel John Durham’s 306-page report released May 15 meticulously details the unconstitutional spy operation and “Russian collusion” witch hunt instigated by FBI bosses and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to try to prevent Donald Trump from winning…


‘Striking for the contract we need,’ say Ohio battery workers

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

HOLLAND, Ohio — More than 400 members of United Auto Workers Local 12 at the Clarios battery plant here, near Toledo, went on strike May 8 after voting overwhelmingly to reject the company’s proposed contract. The factory produces 150,000 batteries…


Beijing looks to expand but can’t match weight of US imperialism

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

For decades the rulers in Beijing have sought to expand control over trade routes and increase their military while seeking markets for their rapidly growing capitalist economy. Rivalry with the U.S. rulers for influence in Asia, the Pacific and beyond…


Philadelphia Teamsters strike at Coca-Cola won broad solidarity

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

PHILADELPHIA — Teamsters Local 830 ended its nearly monthlong strike against Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages May 8. The union, representing 450 drivers, warehouse and production workers, set up picket lines April 16. The Liberty plant is the largest Coca-Cola producer and…


Truckers’ Indiana caravan protests brokers’ moves to slash their income

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Hundreds of owner-operators, fleet drivers protested in Indianapolis May 17 against brokers slashing of freight rates. Punjabi drivers from India and Pakistan are 20% of all U.S. truckers.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of owner-operators and fleet drivers joined together May 17 to protest the disastrous impact of freight brokers slashing rates. The caravan of bobtails — trucks without their trailers — cars and pickup trucks convoyed from Greenwood, Indiana,…


‘There is no solution to the Jewish question under capitalism’

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Some 50,000 workers responded to call by Socialist Workers Party to protest fascist meeting of 20,000 in New York, Feb. 20, 1939. A key lesson of fight by SWP, Minneapolis Teamsters against bosses and Nazi thugs was unions need to champion the struggle against Jew-hatred.

The French edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Leon’s centurieslong history of the Jewish people and the struggle against Jew-hatred was begun on the eve…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

June 8, 1998 Striking Russian coal miners in Siberia and the North Caucasus lifted their blockade of the Trans-Siberian railway May 24 after government officials promised to pay overdue wages. Miners in Inta, near the Polar Circle, on strike since…


Support Ukraine independence! Defeat Moscow’s bloody invasion!

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Shelled building in destroyed city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s forces suffered devastating losses during nine months of combat there, taking most of the city by May 20. Ukrainian forces took hills to west of city. They’re planning to launch a counteroffensive.

On May 20 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army claimed it had pushed Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine out of the devastated city. For nine months it has been the bloodiest battleground in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to…