Alongside Moscow’s murderous invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Jews in Israel — backed and promoted by the rulers in Iran — marked a watershed in world politics. The subsequent acceleration of military conflicts in the Middle East…
This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The book records the fight to build a party, proletarian in program and composition, that can lead…
Elmore Nickleberry, one of the last survivors of the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, died Dec. 30 at the age of 92. The 1,300 workers walked off the job in February 1968, protesting inhuman and discriminatory treatment by…
As the crisis of the imperialist world “order” deepens and the capitalist rulers worldwide look to build up their militaries and search for new allies, the danger of more wars — and threat of nuclear conflagration — grows. This is…
MONTREAL — In a victory for hundreds of truckers who demonstrated two years ago in Ottawa and other cities as part of the Freedom Convoy, a federal judge ruled Jan. 23 that the Canadian government’s invocation of the notorious Emergencies…
February 8, 1999 After a two-week strike and a five-day march toward the capital Bucharest during which they fought pitched battles with the police and military, miners from the Jiu Valley in Romania scored a victory against government attempts to…
NEW YORK — “We have had to face many challenges and adversities to get here, but it has been worth it,” Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Yuri A. Gala López said at a Jan. 21 meeting here to celebrate…
It has been nearly two years since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime launched its invasion of Ukraine, hoping to seize Kyiv, kill the elected leadership and take control over the country within a few days. But working people of Ukraine,…
The Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaigns are being launched across the country and are getting attention. A Jan. 15 press release announcing the party was running Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate from New Jersey and Lea Sherman for U.S. Congress…
Some 1,100 teachers and 800 teaching aides went on strike in Newton, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 following an overwhelming vote for action by members of the Newton Teachers Association. “The most important issue is better pay and schedules for the teaching…
