Statement by Willie Cotton Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, June 29. Working people — who bear the brunt of today’s crisis of the capitalist system — are looking for ways to resist attacks by the…
The Socialist Workers Party is on the ballot in New Jersey! The June 14 deadline passed with no challenge to the 1,500 signatures SWP campaign supporters collected for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. The party plans…
The Hamas group, which rules Gaza, mounted an incendiary balloon attack against civilian areas in Israel June 16, which caused at least 20 fires inside the country. This was meant to provoke a military response from the new Israeli administration,…
Opponents of Washington’s decadeslong bipartisan economic war against Cuba organized caravans and rallies around the world June 20 demanding “End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out of Guantánamo now! End U.S. travel restrictions against Cuba!” The protests were the…
Hoping to jump start resumption of the death penalty, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill May 14 legalizing firing squads and making killings with the state’s 109-year-old electric chair the default method of execution. No one has been…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Letters from Prison by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party. He and 17 other leaders of the SWP and the Minneapolis Teamsters union were framed…
Worried that its population is aging and there won’t be enough young workers to exploit to maximize state profits, the Chinese government announced last month that it was raising the limit on the number of children a family is allowed…
Uranium miners at the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in the Kirovograd region of Ukraine refused to work starting June 15. They’re demanding payment of back wages for April and May. The next day the workers, members of the Independent…
WASHINGTON, Pa. — “We want to let ATI know we are not going anywhere,” Randy Denman Jr., unit chair of United Steelworkers Local 7139-5 at the Allegheny Technologies Inc. plant here, told the press June 22 as pickets and their…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — As the pandemic begins to wind down here, hotel bosses are moving to reopen or expand service and hitting some 50,000 hotel workers across British Columbia with layoffs, mass firings, and demands for wage cuts. These…
