Truck drivers in Australia win gains, FedEx bosses hold out

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

SYDNEY — FedEx drivers in New South Wales and Western Australia took part in a four-hour protest strike Nov. 22, joining other truckers across the country fighting for a pay raise to meet growing inflation and to limit the big…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

December 16, 1996 On December 3 hundreds of thousands of coal miners throughout Russia went on strike to demand back wages, which have not been paid for months. Union leaders estimate more than two-thirds of the country’s 560,000 miners went…


SWP fought US gov’t to open doors to Jews fleeing Nazi terror

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate the proletarian internationalist course of the 1917…


India farmers’ year of protests defeats gov’t attacks

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
India farmers’ year of protests defeats gov’t attacks

Farmers meeting at the Gazipur protest encampment outside India’s capital, New Delhi, Nov. 26 celebrate after their massive yearlong mobilizations were victorious, forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rescind new agricultural laws that threatened their livelihoods. These laws would have…


Protests demand ‘End US economic war on Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Protests demand ‘End US economic war on Cuba!’

Forty people joined a Nov. 28 protest in Toronto, above, opposing the decadeslong U.S. government embargo against Cuba, picketing across the street from the U.S. Consulate. The action was part of monthly caravans and rallies initiated at the end of…


New Alabama Amazon vote

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Nov. 29 that a new union election will take place at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The decision noted election violations by the company in last spring’s vote.


Back Kellogg’s, Warrior Met coal mine strikers!

Bakery workers, miners battle pro-boss court orders
Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Piquetes en planta de Kellogg, Battle Creek, Michigan, 28 de nov. La solidaridad, donaciones y apoyo a las líneas de piquetes son esenciales para lucha de 1,100 huelguistas en cuatro estados.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Morale was high on the picket lines in front of the Kellogg’s plant here Nov. 28 in spite of the freezing cold, wind, and snow that occasionally blasted the strikers. Some 325 workers are on strike…



Canada flood social disaster is a product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

MONTREAL — Tens of thousands of workers and farmers across British Columbia face widespread flooding, mud and rock slides after torrential rain hit central and southern parts of the province beginning Nov. 14. The unfolding social catastrophe, however, is not…