The international drive to expand the readership of the Militant and of books by revolutionary leaders and to raise funds for the Socialist Workers Party was a big success. The decision to go for higher goals than previous drives —…
With no end in sight to the biggest price hikes in decades, especially on food, gas and other necessities, strikes by workers at Kellogg’s cereal plants, ExxonMobil in Texas and at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama set an important example…
U.S. imperialism will never forgive working people in Cuba for overthrowing the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, replacing capitalist rule with a government of workers and farmers, nationalizing U.S. and Cuban companies and opening the first socialist revolution in the…
The bosses’ drive for profit at the expense of safety led to a deadly coal mine methane gas explosion in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia Nov. 25. Over 50 people were killed and dozens more hospitalized. Five workers who…
OAKLAND, Calif. — The 700 members of IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39, who are on strike at 24 Northern California Kaiser hospitals, got a boost Nov. 18 when members of other hospital unions participated in a one-day strike in support…
PITTSBURGH — A Nov. 18 march in support of some 40 Iron Workers Regional Shop Local 851 members on strike at Erie Strayer since Oct. 4 brought out members of seven different area unions and family members. They included members…
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…
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…
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…
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…
