NEW YORK — Nurses at 12 hospitals here are set to strike Jan. 12. Up to 20,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association are preparing to walk out after their contract expired Dec. 31. They’re fighting for better…
The sizable U.S. military assault that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Jan. 3 was the culmination of months of escalating war moves by Washington. President Donald Trump says his administration will now “run” the country and seize the profits of…
At least seven people were killed and 52 injured as of Jan. 7 in the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo, the largest city in northern Syria, during attacks by Turkey-backed militias affiliated with the new Syrian…
“The crisis of capitalism today is driving the imperialist powers toward a new and even more devastating third world war,” explains the Socialist Workers Party National Committee in its Jan. 3 statement “Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela’s Sovereignty! US Out…
The “Sutures Saves Lives” campaign has a goal of raising $75,000 to send 60,000 medical sutures to Cuba by mid-February. The effort is jointly organized by Global Health Partners and the Saving Lives Campaign. Over 31 years, GHP has sent…
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The Spanish Revolution was an uprising by workers and peasants against Gen. Francisco Franco’s 1936 military coup, backed by landlords and capitalists.…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the beginning of the “Project 25 for 25” Dec. 17, what will be the free distribution of 2.5 million books to young people aged 15 to 30 across Latin America. Simultaneously, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel…
Nissen Huts When we visited Cyprus, we went to the Jewish Museum, where the exhibit — “The Nissen Hut” — shows a tin hut and a small reproduction of the detention camps the British Army used to house the thousands of…
WASHINGTON — Pathfinder Press was one of over 50 publishers, bookstores and vendors at the Middle Eastern Studies Association conference here Nov. 22-25. Some 1,900 academics, authors and others took part in over 300 workshops and panel discussions. Topics included…
January 15, 2001 DES MOINES, Iowa — In a victory for working people, workers at the ConAgra sausage processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska, voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. This is the second union victory in…
