UMWA rallies build solidarity for 15-month strike in Alabama

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Alabama miners picket Warrior Met job fair to hire scabs in Pennington Gap, Virginia, June 24. Bosses refuse to honor promise to restore wages, benefits, conditions lost by UMWA members.

“This is an opportunity to send another message to Warrior Met,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said in a video posted for union members, urging workers to come to the weekly strike support meeting at the union…


Cuba’s women made ‘a revolution within the revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Women and the Cuban Revolution, which includes speeches and documents by Fidel Castro, Vilma Espín and others, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The excerpt below is from “The Revolution Within the Revolution,” a December 1966…


Quebec gov’t language law is blow to working people

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

MONTREAL — The National Assembly of Quebec adopted Law 96 on May 24, declaring French the province’s official common language and enforcing its use. Under the pretext of combating the “declining use of French,” the bill restricts the use of…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

July 7, 1997 LONDON — Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and chief negotiator Martin McGuinness were elected May 1 to the U.K. Parliament. In response to the gains made by the Republicans in the recent elections, London briefly reopened bilateral…


South Korea truckers strike wins rate hikes tied to inflation

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

After eight days on strike thousands of owner-operator truck drivers returned to work at major ports and container depots across South Korea June 15. Fighting to ensure their pay keeps up with skyrocketing fuel prices was at the heart of…


Ontario construction workers make gains as strikes continue

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Tens of thousands of Ontario construction workers in the housing and the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors have returned to work after winning significant wage increases through strike actions begun in May. Their goal has been to counter the galloping…


Workers need to unite to fight the scourge of soaring prices

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Skyrocketing prices continue to batter the lives of millions of workers and our families. In hopes of slowing inflation, the Federal Reserve — the U.S. government’s national bank — has begun a series of sharp increases in interest rates, a…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow’s troops out now!

Solidarity of Ukraine, Russian toilers against Putin’s war
Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Protest against Russian army-forced conscription of women’s husbands in Moscow-occupied “Donetsk People’s Republic” four months after they were sent to the front as cannon fodder.

The monthslong battle by Ukrainian toilers fighting to beat back Moscow’s bloody invasion and defend their national independence is now focused in the country’s eastern and southern regions. Moscow has massed its ground forces and is making costly gains in…


SWP launches renewal drive, will put party on Pa. ballot

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, right, with owner-operator Leroy Ford, left, at truck stop near Pittsburgh June 14. “I want to help” the campaign, said Ford.

“We need a change. What we are going through is not sustainable,” trucker Kenneth Kirkland told Chris Hoeppner, a railroad worker and Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania, at a truck stop in Bentleyville, south of Pittsburgh,…