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San Diego sanitation workers win wage increase, end strike
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022Striking sanitation workers, members of Teamsters Local 542, voted 137-70 to accept an improved contract offer by Republic Services bosses, ending their four-week strike. The strikers held firm, winning growing support from area workers and some in the city government,…
Conference organizes support for Sahrawi independence fight
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022MALAGA, Spain — “Youth organizations from all over the world have come here to support freedom and independence for the people of Western Sahara,” Hamdi Aomar Taubali told a gathering of over 150 young people from around the world. “You…
‘Victory of Spanish Revolution would shake fascist regimes’
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
The Spanish Revolution (1931-39) by Leon Trotsky, a leader of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of Pathfinder’s books of the month for January. After the death of V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, the revolutionary…
Fight to end Jim Crow changed US forever
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022President Joseph Biden’s claim that the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are key to stop a new rise of Jim Crow segregation is a fraud. These bills are purely aimed at changing voting procedures…
Deadly fires in Philadelphia, NY caused by landlord greed
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
NEW YORK — Seventeen people perished, including eight children, all from smoke inhalation during a Jan. 9 fire in the 19-story Twin Parks Northeast building in the Bronx. The big-business media immediately laid the blame on a seemingly thoughtless tenant…
Back striking coal miners, Colorado grocery workers!
Warrior Met miners step up Alabama strike, win support
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We’ve worked out with the court that the union can start picketing again,” United Mine Workers of America District 20 Representative James Blankenship told the crowd of striking Warrior Met Coal miners at their weekly solidarity rally…
8,400 King Soopers strikers fight over wages, two-tiers
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022ARVADA, Colo. — The strike by some 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members against the giant Kroger’s grocery chain King Soopers remains strong, with picket lines set up here and throughout the greater Denver area, from Boulder…
Capitalist rulers face political crisis: What’s at stake for working people?
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
The ruling capitalist families face a deepening political crisis today. Neither of the parties they’ve relied on for decades can provide them with political stability. Both Democrats and Republicans are locked in relentless battles for turf and control, and both…
Washington and Moscow spar over military, political power in Ukraine
Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022Talks between the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and the Russian government over Moscow’s troop buildup on its border with Ukraine ended in a deadlock Jan. 13. Washington, no friend of the Ukrainian people, is defending the economic and political interests…