San Juan paper under fire for promoting anti-Semitic article

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

The owners and editors of El Nuevo Día — the largest circulation daily in Puerto Rico — came under fire for printing an anti-Semitic article by columnist Wilda Rodríguez Jan. 8 titled, “What Does the ‘Jew’ Want with the Colony?”…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

The article titled ‘I Urge You, Go See for Yourself the Truth of Cuba’s Revolution’ in the Jan. 1 Militant says that influenza, a viral illness, is treated with antibiotics and steroids in the U.S. This is incorrect. Antibiotics are…


Jury deliberates in frame-up of Quebec rail workers

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018
Jury deliberates in frame-up of Quebec rail workers

MONTREAL — After six full days, jury deliberations continue in the Canadian government’s frame-up trial of locomotive engineer Tom Harding and train traffic controller Richard Labrie, both members of United Steelworkers Local 1976. Along with Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway…



Washington eases off on Cuba travel advisory

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

The U.S. State Department announced Jan. 10 that it had downgraded its warning on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens. After alleging last September that its diplomats in Havana had been the victims of mysterious covert “sonic attacks,” the U.S.…


Workers donate ‘blood money’ bonuses to help build the SWP

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Twenty-three members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have contributed a total of $4,648.11 to the party from bosses’ “blood money” bribes in December and January so far. Many workers get “bonuses” doled out at the end of the…


Pussy Riot speaks out about fight against prison conditions in Russia

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova became known around the world for performing a “punk prayer” against the regime of President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ in February 2012 that led to two-year prison…


Victories scored against New York and New Jersey prison book bans

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Authorities have been implementing a pilot program at several state prisons in New York that severely limits access to books prisoners or their friends and families can order for them to read. As more facts about it have come to…


Russian auto union fights government move to shut it down

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

“The very existence of trade unions in the Russian Federation will be called into question,” the Interregional Labor Union of Automobile Workers (MPRA) — one of the largest unions in Russia — said after the City Court of St. Petersburg…


How Russian communists led 1950s strikes in Stalin’s camps

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Vorkuta (1950-53): Oppositional currents and the mine strikes” from Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The author, Brigitte Gerland, an East German communist, spent some eight…