Some NY taxi drivers win debt reduction, fight for all continues

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Fifteen days after some two dozen New York City yellow-cab drivers began a well-publicized hunger strike, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Aloysee Heredia Jarmoszuk announced Nov. 3 an agreement had…


Santa Fe bakery workers strike Jon Donaire over pay, conditions

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Members of Bakery Workers union Local 37 on strike against Jon Donaire Desserts in Santa Fe Springs, California, picket plant Nov. 7 in fight for $1 raise, respect and pensions.

SANTE FE SPRINGS, Calif. — Members of Local 37 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union at Jon Donaire went on strike here Nov. 3. Their chant is “Raise, respect and pension!” They make products under…


Ironworkers strike Erie Strayer over wages, attendance policy

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

ERIE, Pa. — Forty-two members of Ironworkers Regional Shop Local 851 have been on strike at Erie Strayer here for over a month. After six months of negotiations went nowhere, workers walked off the job Oct. 4, rejecting the company’s…


UN summit fakery shows workers must defend land and labor

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Farmers plant rice in West Java, Indonesia. President Joko Widodo told climate change conference that blanket ban on deforestation would affect lives of “millions of Indonesians.”

Like previous climate conferences, this year’s United Nations summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has been marked by panicked claims that “time is running out” and empty promises by heads of state to reduce greenhouse gases. The end result? More hot air…


Sudan protests continue, fight to overturn military coup

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Sudanese security forces fired rubber bullets and arrested scores of protesters in attacks against rallies in several cities Nov. 7, part of an ongoing wave of actions against the Oct. 25 military coup led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Thousands…


Socialist revolution in Russia set out to emancipate women

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Women at literacy class after triumph of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. “Social construction,” Leon Trotsky writes, must improve “the position of mother and child.” Without child care, health care, culture reaching women, including in the countryside, “socialism is unthinkable.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Trotsky describes how under the leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party workers and peasants fought to defend their revolution and to transform…


Over 22,000 Canadian public workers strike for higher pay

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — Over 22,000 members of 10 locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have been on strike across the province since Oct. 29. They are demanding higher wages to reduce the gap with public sector workers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

November 25, 1996 Class-conscious fighters around the world should loudly protest the imminent imperialist intervention in Central Africa. Using the pretext of a “humanitarian mission” to save refugees and the fig leaf of the United Nations, Paris, at first, and…


Kellogg’s workers strike for ‘Equal pay for equal work!’

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Since Oct. 5, 1,400 bakery workers have been on strike at Kellogg’s cereal plants. Chicago BCTGM Local 1 members and other supporters join picket in Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 4.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union negotiating committee voted down a Nov. 4 “last, best and final” set of contract demands from Kellogg’s bosses. Since Oct. 5, 1,400 union members have been…