President Joseph Biden frequently insists he is “the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.” Most top labor officials are missing no opportunity to urge unionists to vote more Democrats into office in November, so Biden…
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — Workers at Ostrom Mushroom Farm here turned in a petition with signatures of 200 current and former workers June 22 calling on bosses to “provide a workplace free from threats, excessive pressure, harassment, and retaliation.” “We have…
OSLO, Norway — After forcing the end of a strike by airplane mechanics demanding higher wages by imposing compulsory arbitration on June 28, Labor Minister Marte Mjos Person did the same against striking oil workers a week later, this time…
Faced with months of determined and massive protests over their handling of the country’s crippling social and economic crisis, and widespread corruption, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced July 9 that they would resign soon.…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…
July 28, 1997 UNITED NATIONS — “We have come to denounce the colonial and imperialistic policies that the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico for the last 99 years,” said Raquel Rivera June 19 at the UN Special Committee…
Help get the word out about the strike by workers at Case New Holland widely in the labor movement and beyond! This fight by hundreds of United Auto Workers members in Iowa and Wisconsin is a fight in the interest…
BY NAOMI CRAINE, JOHN HAWKINS, AND LEROY WATSON BURLINGTON, Iowa —“We’re fighting for wages that will keep up with inflation, and better retirement benefits. And they don’t want to give that to us,” said Gary Binder, a worker at Case…
Socialist Workers Party candidates in Minnesota issued a statement July 5 answering vile antisemitic leaflets distributed anonymously in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, near Talmud Torah’s Newman elementary school. The rightist leaflet was headlined “Every Single Aspect of…
Despite significant troop losses and festering disquiet at home, Moscow continues to press its war aimed at conquering Ukraine and crushing its decadeslong battle for independence. While facing resistance in occupied areas (see article on Mariupol protest), Russian forces have…
