LOS ANGELES — More than 250 Republic Services sanitation workers in the San Diego area, members of Teamsters Local 542, went on strike Dec. 18. “Safety issue here is a big concern. We’re driving trucks that shouldn’t be on the…
NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, spoke here Dec. 11 on the fight for women’s emancipation and the class-struggle road for workers to fight for political power — in the wake of…
Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight against the Korean War and McCarthyism by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Cannon was a founding leader of the communist movement in…
The U.S. rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba was dealt a setback Dec. 8 when the Congress of Colombia gave an award to the Cuban government for facilitating talks that led to a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the…
LOS ANGELES — “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries, just one example of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa,” Alejandro García, of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., told a meeting here Dec.…
Workers are showing growing confidence today in using our unions to fight against the attacks of the bosses and their government. This is an advance for all working people, including workers yet to be organized, farmers and all those oppressed…
A national “open letter” signed by 1,470 math and science teachers and professors as of Dec. 19 protests the gutting of math education under the guise of fighting racism. The letter states, “We write to express our alarm over recent…
January 6, 1997 For an entire month, daily protests against the Stalinist regime of Slobodan Milosevic have filled the streets of Yugoslavia. The number of demonstrators in the capital of Serbia has hovered around 100,000. On December 16 up to…
LONDON — Angered by the BBC’s biased reporting minimizing an antisemitic assault two weeks earlier, 250 people gathered in front of the company’s central London offices Dec. 13, chanting, “BBC News: Tell the truth!” and “BBC News: Stop blaming Jews!”…
