More Pathfinder books are now up at bookshare.org

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

Spread the word! Pathfinder’s latest title, The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward, is now available at www.bookshare.org for workers and others who are blind or face other barriers to reading print…


Puerto Rico brigade prepares for solidarity trip to Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

The Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico has not let FBI harassment of members of last year’s brigade to Cuba stop it from organizing to oppose the U.S. economic war on Cuba and tell the truth about Cuba’s Revolution. The…


Oakland forum takes up fight to defend constitutional freedoms

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. — “I am a symbol of countless victims of the FBI’s Cointelpro,” Watani Stiner told a Militant Labor Forum here April 30. “Yet I am a survivor of it.” Stiner and Joel Britton of the Socialist Workers Party…



Montreal cemetery workers fight union-busting attack

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

MONTREAL — After many months on strike, 117 office, operations and maintenance workers, members of two locals of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), are taking on a union-busting drive by the bosses at the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery here. At…


Teamster truck drivers protest ABF, TForce and Yellow bosses

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. — Some 100 Teamsters rallied here May 11 in the parking lot of a huge ABF Freight terminal, 35 miles south of Chicago. The union is in negotiations with two trucking companies, ABF and TForce Freight, and…



Oakland teachers strike for higher pay, smaller classes

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. — After seven months of contract negotiations nearly 3,000 public school teachers, counselors, nurses, social workers and other school employees organized by the Oakland Education Association went on strike at 80 schools here May 4. The union is…



What are stakes for working people in US banking crisis?

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

Government officials and the owners of the country’s largest banks keep insisting the U.S. banking system has been stabilized and is under control. Is that true? The answer is no, as the deepening crisis of their capitalist system continues to…