Economic turmoil and political conflicts are rising across Asia in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as governments seek the best course to defend their interests in a shifting world. Alongside the rulers of China and India, the capitalist…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Several dozen workers and their families joined striking refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, at a picket line rally outside the Chevron refinery here April 7. The expanded picketing was part of ongoing efforts by…
MONTREAL — “We’ll stay out as long as we need to,” to force the excavation bosses to sign a contract, Jasvir Dhaliwal told the Militant April 16. Some 1,500 truck drivers who have been out on strike in the Greater…
MONTREAL — Over 400 workers at the Molson-Coors brewery and distribution center here went on strike March 25. Key issues are the bosses’ inadequate wage offer, where workers would actually lose ground to inflation, and the company’s demand to impose…
May 5, 1997 STOCKHOLM — As Washington leads the imperialist drive to extend NATO into eastern and central Europe, the Swedish ruling class has become increasingly active in defending its imperialist interests in the Baltic region. Both the Social Democratic…
The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1928-29) by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The book documents the opposition led by Trotsky in the Soviet Communist Party to defend the proletarian and revolutionary internationalist…
HAVANA — After a two-year hiatus, the 30th Havana International Book Fair opened here April 20. Organizers have overcome big challenges to ensure it can take place: the impact of COVID, the world capitalist crisis and Washington’s intensified economic sanctions.…
The bosses and their political parties — facing increasing cutthroat competition and conflict worldwide — are stepping up their assaults on working people at home and abroad. To defend their dog-eat-dog profit system, they’re driving to lower our living standards,…
Well-known author Heather Ann Thompson is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for banning prisoners in the state from reading her award-winning book on the Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison…
Reza Baraheni, a world-renowned leader in the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran, died in Toronto March 24 at age 86. He was among that country’s most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics of the last half century.…
