MANCHESTER, England — Union actions across the U.K. demanding pay raises are drawing in tens of thousands as anger mounts about the hit workers are facing from inflation. After two days of strike actions Aug. 18 and 20, members of…
FRESNO, Calif. — “No contract, no crunch!” is a slogan of the 40 workers, the entire production unit, who went on strike at the Corn Nuts plant here Aug. 15. They explain the company refuses to seriously negotiate with them…
BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, SETH GALINSKY AND MARY-ALICE WATERS NEW YORK — After more than two years of debate involving millions of Cubans, a nationwide referendum will be held Sept. 25 to vote “yes” or “no” on a new Families Code.…
Car caravans and other actions took place across the country July 31 to demand an end to the decadeslong U.S. economic war against Cuba. In both Miami and New York, rightist provocateurs attempted to disrupt the protests. Organized by Bridges…
MONTREAL — Two hundred Rolls-Royce Canada workers, who repair and overhaul aircraft engines, and their supporters marched and rallied at Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s office here Aug. 3 to protest the Quebec government giving millions of dollars in handouts to…
NEW YORK — More than 30 years after he was convicted, Steven Lopez, the sixth co-defendant in a 1989 frame-up trial of five youth, who became known as the Central Park Five, was exonerated July 25 in the New York…
SYDNEY — In a major step forward the Communist Leagues in New Zealand and Australia have decided to combine their forces to build one Communist League, based in Australia with its headquarters in Sydney. The decision will enable the party…
On Aug. 9 the Supreme Court of Ohio granted Oberlin College a stay from having to pay damages long owed the Gibson family until the court can review a pending appeal filed by the school. Attorneys for the Gibson…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead. Representing the Socialist Workers Party, Halstead helped lead the international protest movement.…
FAIRFIELD, Texas — Steers crowd under trees in parched brown pasture and mileslong lines of ranchers queue at the auction house here to sell off cattle they can no longer afford to feed. Texas faces the worst drought since 2011.…
