San Francisco airport strikers win victory, gain wage raise

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
UNITE HERE Local 2 members picket San Francisco airport Sept. 26, during three-day strike. Workers won wage raise, prevented bosses from increasing family health care costs.

SAN FRANCISCO — After three days on strike, over 1,000 cooks, servers, dishwashers, baristas, lounge attendants and cashiers at San Francisco’s International Airport won a new contract Sept. 28. They got a $5 an hour wage increase over two years,…


Inflation, slow-up in production deepen crisis for working people

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Rising prices are having a devastating impact on workers’ lives in the U.S., across the advanced capitalist world and, especially, in the semi-colonial countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, with no end in sight. The capitalist crisis increasingly involves…


Temple University graduate assistants rally for new contract

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — Unionized graduate assistants at Temple University protested outside the school’s board of trustees meeting taking place at Charles Library here Oct. 11 demanding a new contract. The demonstration, organized by Temple University Graduate Student Assistants, American Federation of…


Solidarity with miners! No worker has to die!

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Statement issued Oct. 19 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas. A former coal miner, Kennedy was part of a Militant reporting team to Soma, Turkey, in 2014. The methane gas explosion in the state-owned Turkish…


Solidarity concert to save jobs at Greek smelter and mines

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

LARYMNA, Greece — A solidarity concert attended by over 250 mine and smelter workers, their families and area unionists and other supporters took place here Oct. 9, about a two-hour drive north of Athens. Larco, the largest nickel producer in…



‘Cuban women have always been on the front lines of the struggle’

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
“March of the Pencils” in Havana Dec. 22, 1961, celebrates success of literacy campaign. About 250,000 volunteers, a majority young women, taught 700,000 adults to read and write.

Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla became second in command of the first all-female platoon in…


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Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

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1,000 march against arsenic emissions by Quebec smelter

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Protest against dangerous arsenic emissions by Horne copper smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Sept. 23. Sign in the center reads “Money has no smell. Arsenic doesn’t either!”

ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec — One thousand people of all ages, including many children, marched here Sept. 23 to protest emissions of arsenic by the Horne copper smelter located in the town. The march was led by a banner that read in…


Berkeley groups ban all speakers who defend Israel’s right to exist

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Nine student groups at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law adopted bylaws in August promoted by Law Students for Justice in Palestine that ban “speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support…