MINNEAPOLIS — After a long and bitter lockout by Marathon Petroleum bosses at the St. Paul Park refinery, members of Teamsters Local 120 voted to approve a revised contract offer from the company. The workers returned to work July 6…
An Afghan soldier on guard after U.S. departure from giant Bagram air base July 2. It had been the hub of Washington’s military operations in its 20-year-long war in Afghanistan. Most forces flew out overnight, turning off power and water…
CHICAGO — Some 2,000 Cook County Health hospital workers went on strike here June 25 in a fight for higher pay. The workers, including custodians, technicians, health care professionals and clerks, are members of Service Employees International Union Local 73.…
Accompanied by well-orchestrated hoopla, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his regime has been putting on a self-serving celebration touting their version of the 100-year anniversary of the country’s ruling Communist Party. Studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party is…
Some 800 workers at the PepsiCo-owned Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, went on strike July 5. Members of Local 218 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union are fighting for a pay raise, better conditions and against…
MONTREAL — Some 550 poultry workers at the Exceldor packinghouse, who went on strike May 23, made gains in a new contract and defended their right to strike. The plant is in Saint-Anselme, south of Quebec City. By a vote…
An important victory for political rights was won July 1 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn a California regulation requiring tens of thousands of charities there to hand over lists of donors to state officials. The decision…
Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, July 7. Striking steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc. and autoworkers at Volvo Trucks in Virginia are discussing tentative deals reached by their unions. Oil refinery workers locked out by…
Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The excerpt is from the section “Bondholders and the…
On June 1 the government of Puerto Rico handed over management of the breakdown-plagued state-owned electric system to Luma Energy, a U.S.-Canadian joint venture. The electrical workers union, UTIER, and other opponents of the move organized protests across the island…
