May 11, 1998 MELBOURNE, Australia — Defying cops and court orders, mass picket lines continue to block access to and from Patrick Stevedores’ wharves across the country in support of sacked Maritime Union of Australia members. The company dismissed its…
NEWARK, N.J. — Spirited picket lines went up April 10 at Rutgers University’s three campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden. The strike by 9,000 faculty members — the first in 257 years — is the biggest public sector strike…
SYDNEY — Around 100 Transport Workers Union members rallied April 11 at the Cleanaway depot in Erskine Park in western Sydney as part of their fight for new contracts. Workers at the depot there were joined by union members from…
ATLANTA — “A few of our union members who are back at work have told us that there is a petition to decertify the union circulating in the mine,” United Mine Workers of America member Charles Foster told the Militant…
How Far We Slaves Have Come by Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. From 1975 to 1991, hundreds of thousands of volunteer Cuban fighters helped drive out the U.S.-backed South African…
Two-tier wages, part-time jobs, dangerous conditions, schedules that wreak havoc with workers’ lives and constant company harassment are what bosses impose on millions of workers. These are the conditions the Teamsters at UPS are fighting to change as they rally…
May 4, 1998 HAVANA — Three thousand delegates from 79 countries came here for an “International Meeting of Solidarity Between Women.” The focus of discussion was how to confront the growing attacks on the standard of living of working people…
Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo have been carrying out a series of overlapping and provocative war games in South Korea aimed at intimidating the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North. They are the largest military maneuvers there since 2018…
CHICAGO — The owners of Pilsen Community Books here discovered the FBI has been spying on them. “They called us ‘pro-abortion extremists’ because we had a sign-painting event for the June 22 [2022] action supporting a woman’s right to choose…
The reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the Iranian and Saudi regimes — finalized in Beijing — is a reflection of the weakening of Washington’s role in the Middle East, although it remains the dominant imperialist power intervening there. The ruling…
