MONTREAL — Two hundred people marched here Sept. 18 under the slogan “Status for all,” calling on the Canadian government to grant permanent resident status to all undocumented migrants in the country. The action was part of a cross-Canada mobilization.…
As Washington announced its emergence as an imperialist power by seizing a series of Spanish colonies in the 1898 Spanish-American War, the U.S. Supreme Court over the next few years sharply limited constitutional rights and protections for residents of the…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — “These checks are for contributions by workers at two Alpha Baking plants in Chicago. We took up a collection because your strike is so important to defend the gains we have won over the years,” said…
Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, Sept. 21. The Socialist Workers Party hails the resistance of Ukrainian working people and calls for the defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces. We stand with…
Protests spread in Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16 in Tehran. She was detained by the widely hated morality police — “Guidance Patrols” — three days earlier, along with other women, for allegedly violating the…
Home nursery workers demonstrated in Jerusalem Sept. 1, part of a one-day strike demanding higher pay and better work conditions. The action was organized by the National Union of Day Care Workers, which has some 3,000 members — predominantly Jewish…
PITTSBURGH — Workers from 13 of the 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania took down their picket lines Sept. 9 after a week on strike. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, their union, reached a tentative agreement with Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The…
October 6, 1997 SACRAMENTO, California — Shouting “¡Sí, se puede!” and “Justice! Now!” more than 1,000 farm workers and janitors, along with other unionists, students, and community activists, marched through this state capital September 18, led by the United Farm…
The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta in 1983, bringing to power a…
This statement by Naomi Craine, a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union and Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Illinois, was released Sept. 20. Rail workers continue to face a relentless offensive from carrier bosses determined to…
