CHICAGO — Nearly 900 faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago struck Jan. 17, demanding pay raises to keep up with inflation, job security and expanded mental health support for students. They are members of UIC United Faculty, an…
If you tuned into “60 Minutes” on Jan. 1 you heard Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, tell the audience, “I and the vast majority of my colleagues think we’ve had it; that the next few decades will be the…
CHICAGO — “I’m glad we stayed strong because we ended up with a lot better contract,” bakery worker Elaine Sweiger told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Sweiger was one of 122 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local…
ATLANTA — Georgia State Patrol cops shot and killed Manuel Teran as they cleared out an encampment in Intrenchment Creek Park in Dekalb County Jan. 18. Teran was part of a group of middle-class radicals and anarchists attempting to block…
Statement issued Jan. 25 by Ellie García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2022. Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no control. But these are not primarily natural disasters such as the…
February 9, 1998 The conduct of Cuban president Fidel Castro and of hundreds of thousands of Cuban people during the Pope’s visit provided a joyous glimpse of what it means for the proletariat to be in power with a firm,…
Retirees and other workers protested outside at least a dozen government offices across Iran Jan. 22 demanding a substantial increase in the minimum wage and pensions. Called by the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers Union, the Coordinating Committee to Help Build…
The Communist League of America 1932-34 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s January Books of the Month. Under the inspiration of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Cannon helped found the Communist Party in the U.S. in 1919.…
Moscow’s larger and better armed military continues to fail to make any substantial gains against determined and motivated Ukrainian workers and soldiers defending their country’s independence. Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a protracted war of attrition, seeking a…
As he openly explained, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February to destroy its government, subjugate its people, obliterate their national identity, and incorporate it into a rebuilt greater Russian empire. With working people in the…
