Correction

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021

In the article “Back Locked-Out Oil Workers Standing Up to ExxonMobil” in issue no. 35, the name of the secretary-treasurer of USW Local 13-243 was incorrectly spelled. It should say Karla Konning.


Montreal: ‘Workers need to build our own political party’

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021

MONTREAL — “More workers here in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere are using their unions to defend what we have won, against the drive of the bosses who are attacking our wages and working conditions,” Michel Prairie, Communist League candidate…


Rose Knight: 50-year veteran of communist movement in UK

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Rose Knight, fourth from left in front row, visiting fellow rail workers in Coalville, part of a solidarity delegation of National Union of Railwaymen members during 1984-85 coal strike. Inset, Knight at 2009 London protest against U.S., U.K. rulers’ war in Afghanistan.

LONDON — Forty people attended a meeting hosted by the Communist League to celebrate the life and political contributions of Rose Knight here Sept. 4. A 50-year veteran of the communist movement, she died June 26 after a long illness. …


Thomas Sankara: ‘We are heirs of the world’s revolutions’

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Vaccinated children, families gather in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in August 1986 to celebrate their revolution. Popular revolutionary government led by Sankara mobilized working people to advance mass health campaigns, women’s equality and other social measures.

The French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. In August 1983 Sankara led an uprising in the…


Miners mark 100 years since union battle at Blair Mountain

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Above, West Virginia coal miners after 1921 battle at Blair Mountain. Fierce struggle by miners laid groundwork for growth of United Mine Workers union. Inset, West Virginia teachers in 2018 strike wore red bandanas in tribute to those miners.

Over Labor Day weekend in West Virginia, dozens of commemorations, including rallies, presentations, and re-enactments, marked the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain. This was one of the biggest armed conflicts ever fought between unionists and the bosses’…


SWP: ‘US forces out of Korea! Lift economic sanctions!’

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021

“We stand in solidarity with the Korean people’s struggle to reunify the country and restore Korea’s national sovereignty,” Steve Clark wrote for the Socialist Workers Party in a Sept. 9 letter to the North Korean government on the 73rd anniversary…


Longshore union in LA: ‘End US embargo of Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Longshore union in LA: ‘End US embargo of Cuba!’

LOS ANGELES — Floyd Bryan, president of the Southern California District Council of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, reads the resolution passed by the union at its June convention demanding an end to the U.S. government’s embargo against Cuba.…


New York rally protests Texas anti-abortion law

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
New York rally protests Texas anti-abortion law

NEW YORK — More than 125 supporters of women’s rights joined a protest called by the National Organization for Women, and Planned Parenthood, at Brooklyn Borough Hall Sept. 9 opposing an anti-abortion Texas law that went into effect Sept. 1.…


In Defense of Land and Labor

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021

The following excerpt is from the opening section of “The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class: In Defense of Land and Labor,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution published in New International no. 14. Copyright © 2008 by…