The overall number of deaths from two devastating earthquakes 100 miles west of Caracas, Venezuela, are not known, with close to 2,000 found dead and thousands more still missing. What is certain is the scale of the deaths and destruction…
CROCKETT, Calif. — Ninety-one warehouse workers, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, went on strike June 15 at C&H Sugar here. They voted unanimously to turn down the bosses’ insulting takeback contract and to authorize a strike.…
July 16, 2001 Eight young people are among the first students from the United States to receive scholarships to attend the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana. The more than 3,400 international students at the school come from…
NEW YORK — A video of Willie Cotton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, speaking at a June 24 protest against Jew-hatred outside the Poetica Coffee shop in Brooklyn has been viewed more than 32,000 times.…
CHICAGO — Roxanne Brown, international president of the United Steelworkers union, speaking above, led several hundred locked-out workers from the BP oil refinery and their supporters in a spirited picket and rally outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Chicago June…
New protest actions are now taking place almost every day in Iran, confronting attempts by the reactionary regime there to make working people pay for the deepening capitalist crisis and its foreign wars. Retirees, nurses, taxi drivers and textile workers…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Surrounded by exhibits on the history of working people of Cape Verdean origin in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, more than 40 people attended a discussion on the new Pathfinder book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau…
In a controversial 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held June 23 that a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil seeking more than $1 billion for property nationalized by Cuba can go forward. It follows another decision in late May allowing a…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June is Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement from the early 1960s…
Nat’l Nurses United union: ‘We will not remain silent!’ WASHINGTON — Setting an important example for the entire labor movement, National Nurses United — the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. — organized a press conference here June…
