Democrats, antifa push anti-Catholic attacks, bigotry

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

Over the last two years there have been at least 170 attacks on Catholic churches across the U.S. In 38 states and the District of Columbia, week after week churches have had services disrupted, windows broken out, bullets shot through…


UAW calls Dec. 17 ‘Solidarity Day’ for Case strikers

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

Striking members of United Auto Workers Local 180 and their supporters are building a “Solidarity Day” for Dec. 17 to press their contract fight against the bosses at Case New Holland. “It’s being broadcast in a lot of places,” Yasin…



Chinese American scientists beat back FBI ‘spy’ frame-up attempts

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Left, Xiaoxing Xi, Temple University physics department chair. He fought FBI frame-up, won public support, and charges were dropped. Right, Sherry Chen in 2018 after court ruling that her firing from the National Weather Service on espionage charges was a “gross injustice.”

SAN FRANCISCO — At a Nov. 12 program during the conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas here (see accompanying article), three Chinese scientists, all naturalized U.S. citizens, gave powerful accounts of how they stood up…


On eve of WWII, rulers task FBI as Washington’s political police

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Above, armed FBI raid Aug. 8 on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. Inset, Sept. 1 press conference by Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico hits FBI harassment. Democrats seek to refurbish FBI as political police, targeting working class, opponents of imperialist war.

Fifty Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It marks the capitalist rulers’ decision…


Defend right to strike! Support rail workers!

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

Working people have every interest in backing the struggle of rail workers against the attacks of the bosses and opposing government intervention aimed at crippling their use of union power. Both President Joseph Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi seek to…


Ontario school workers debate vote on gov’t contract offer

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
School workers and supporters rally in Toronto Nov. 4 after CUPE members walked off job, forcing Ontario government to back down, rescinding draconian anti-strike law. This set an example for unionists everywhere facing gov’t threats against use of union power to support workers’ interests.

TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing 55,000 Ontario education workers, agreed Nov. 20 to present a proposed contract from the Ontario provincial government to the workers for decision and called off a strike set to begin the…


Toronto forum discusses class battles in North America

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Toronto forum discusses class battles in North America

TORONTO — “A lot of anger has been building in the working class as bosses and capitalist governments deepen their attacks on our wages and working conditions across North America and worldwide. We will see more labor actions like the…


Working people in Ukraine key to fight against Moscow’s war

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Oleg Shumei performs “Maidan” and other songs at Nov. 21 Maidan Reminiscences event in Lviv, Ukraine, on ninth anniversary of onset of popular uprising that overthrew pro-Moscow regime of Viktor Yanukovych. Dignity and Freedom Day was celebrated all across Ukraine.

The determined resistance of Ukraine’s working people and the country’s fighting forces continues to deal military setbacks to the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his assaults against the existence and independence of their country. Putin also faces growing…


Protests, strikes spread across Iran despite attacks by regime

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Miles de manifestantes en Mahabadi, Irán, en funeral de Kamal Ahmadpour 19 nov., un día después que lo mató la policía. Corearon, “¡Kurdos, baluches, azeríes, libertad e igualdad!”

In a failed attempt to quell massive protests by working people and youth, the Iranian regime sent convoys of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops and paramilitary Basij thugs to the predominantly Kurdish northwestern region of the country over the Nov.…