‘Standing up, fighting back helps unite working people’

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
From left, Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Montreal; Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party 2016 candidate for president; and Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, visit United Steelworkers on strike at Galvano plant in Quebec Oct. 10.

MONTREAL, Quebec — “The heart of a union is workers’ activity in defense of our rights,” Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 2016, told striking members of United Steelworkers Local 9414 Oct. 10, when she visited…


Lift US sanctions on NKorea! For a nuclear-free peninsula!

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

Washington should immediately and unconditionally “lift all sanctions against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” and “live up to the White House pledge last year to halt joint war games with Seoul,” wrote Steve Clark, Oct. 10, for the Socialist…


Georgia cop faces prison in shooting of Anthony Hill

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

DECATUR, Ga. — After six days of deliberation, jurors Oct. 14 found former DeKalb County cop Robert Olsen guilty of aggravated assault and other lesser charges in the 2015 killing of Anthony Hill. The 27-year-old African American veteran of the…


PG&E cuts power to 700,000 homes in Northern California

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
Burned, mangled power lines in Santa Rosa, California, Oct. 2017. PG&E faces millions of dollars in damages over responsibility for fire for poor maintenance, failure to clear vegetation.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “It’s outrageous what PG&E is doing,” Crystal Perdiguerra, a resident of East Oakland whose husband uses a home dialysis machine, told the Militant. Perdiguerra, like many others, is angry at the disdain shown by Pacific Gas &…


Workers, peasants in Ecuador push back gov’t attacks

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

After nearly two weeks of protest and a general strike by thousands of workers, students and indigenous peoples from the countryside, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno was forced  to reverse his Oct. 1 decree that increased fuel prices in the country.…


Nicaraguan Revolution opened way for women’s emancipation

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
Women in militia in Bluefields, Nicaragua, 1983. After revolutionary course was abandoned by Sandinista leaders in late 1980s, women lost many gains. Abortion was totally banned in 2006.

Nicaragua: The Sandinista People’s Revolution, with speeches and interviews by leaders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpt is from a 1982 speech, “Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution,”…


‘The stewardship of land and labor falls to the working class’

Vol. 83/No. 38 - October 21, 2019

MONTREAL — Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in the Montreal riding of Longueuil-St. Hubert, and Steve Penner, CL candidate in the federal riding of Papineau in Montreal, and a number of supporters went to the “climate crisis” rally here Sept.…


Iraqi protests demand jobs, end to Tehran intervention

Vol. 83/No. 38 - October 21, 2019
Protesters in Baghdad Oct. 1, one of many actions across southern Iraq. Working people have used opening of political space with the defeat of Islamic State to press demands for jobs, services, for the fall of the government and for Tehran’s hated militias to leave the country.

Despite unbridled government and paramilitary assaults that have left over 100 dead, 6,000 wounded and hundreds jailed, working people continue to protest in Baghdad and cities across southern Iraq. They are demanding an end to years of unemployment, widespread corruption…