The reactionary capitalist government in Iran is trying to reimpose its dress code for women and beat back the widespread political debate that exploded after the hated morality police took Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman, into custody, leading to…
SYDNEY — Chanting “Union power!” over 1,000 workers marched through the central city here and rallied at the New South Wales state parliament April 5. The protest was part of a national day of action demanding a ban on the…
The Iranian government arrested Mohammad Habibi, a leader of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions, April 5, at the school where he teaches in Shahryar near Tehran. He was just released from jail on Feb. 8 after nearly…
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — “We’re here to show the company you can’t treat us like this,” William Gehrig told Militant correspondents visiting the picket line outside the Metal-Matic plant here April 7. Gehrig and some 120 other members of United…
SEATTLE — Over 100 students and unionists rallied together at the University of Washington here March 31 in support of mushroom workers in Sunnyside fighting to win recognition of the United Farm Workers at Greenwood Mushrooms, formerly known as Ostrom.…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — At the end of March, Yazidis gathered on the grounds of Lalish Temple in northern Iraq for a religious ceremony, the extraction of olive oil for illuminating the temple. It was a reminder that almost…
The Case of the Legless Veteran by James Kutcher is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. In the decade after World War II, the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party and others were targeted as part of the…
Following years of expanding their state capitalist economy and building up their military, the Chinese rulers are now asserting greater political clout, especially in Asia, leading to sharper tensions with the imperialist rulers in Washington. Conflicts that have been building…
At least one person — a construction worker laboring on the tracks — was killed in a nasty derailment, above, in the village of Voorschoten in the Netherlands at 3:25 a.m. April 4. The double-decker intercity train carrying over 50…
