PITTSBURGH — “‘Little to no change’: Central Appalachia black lung disease hits 50-year high,” was a headline in an article here in response to a sobering report on the continuing increase in deadly black lung in miners published by scientists…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 150 people attended a political meeting and showing of “Cuba After Castro” at the Main Cinema here Aug. 26. The film, made by Abby Martin and Matthew Belen, is an interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who…
Four and a half years since its invasion began, Moscow’s stalled ground war and murderous bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue daily, but are failing to break the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Its escalating campaign targets civilian populations in residential…
Pathfinder Press has launched a special sale of selected volumes of the collected writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, as well as the collected writings of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. The books are on sale for the special price…
“U.S. corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt,” an Aug. 28 Financial Times headline said, pointing to the deepening class divisions under capitalist rule today. Increasing numbers of workers face greater difficulties in making ends meet, while for…
Washington is relentlessly ratcheting up its political, economic and trade blockade against Cuba, raising the stakes for workers the world over to protest its drive to break the Cuban people. The U.S. government is making it harder and harder to…
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, told participants in a well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 22 that working people and the unions need to speak out in protest against recent revelations of…
Feminism and the Marxist Movement by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Marxists have always explained that the economic roots of women’s oppression are an integral part of the workings of capitalism. Only the…
SAN FRANCISCO — Fifteen spirited pickets from UNITE HERE Local 2 chanted and banged on pots Aug. 16 outside Hotel Spero here, concluding a five-day strike. The workers have been without a contract for four years. In March the hotel…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A lively march and rally demanding independence for Puerto Rico drew some 60 people to City Hall here Aug. 29. “Puerto Rico has been occupied illegally by the U.S. for 128 years,” Jason Cruz, president of…
