LONDON — After days of heavy rain, a dam containing 1.3m tonnes of water from the Toddbrook Reservoir suffered major damage — possibly leading to a complete collapse. Thousands of people have evacuated nearby Whaley Bridge and 10 other towns…
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Yosef Lipschutz, 68, was shot at least six times July 28 as he sat outside the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue waiting to join the evening prayers. He survived the anti-Semitic attack, but has…
NEW YORK — A New York Police Department administrative judge Aug. 3 recommended that cop Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold on Staten Island five years ago, should be fired. Police Commissioner James O’Neill will rule on…
Is the massacre of Latinos at a Walmart in El Paso by a rightist killer a sign that “there are more and more angry white people out there willing to commit mayhem”? as columnist Paul Krugman asserted in an Aug.…
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nearly 130 delegates gathered here July 26-27 for the Ninth Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba. They exchanged experiences and discussed plans for activities to broaden opposition to the U.S. government’s six-decade-long economic war against the…
“It’s become clear that the fight’s not over,” David Gibson said in a video posted to Facebook Aug. 6. Gibson is one of the owners of a family-run bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, who won a lawsuit in June against Oberlin…
Socialism on Trial: Testimony at Minneapolis Sedition Trial by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Cannon, a founding leader of the communist movement in the U.S., was one of 18 Socialist Workers Party…
August 22, 1994 Responsibility for the cold-blooded murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett by a rightist thug in Pensacola, Florida, on July 29 rests squarely on the federal government. Defenders of abortion rights, as well as the entire…
Trial is ‘no consolation’ As a former telecom worker in the U.K., I recognized many of the abuses suffered by France Telecom workers described in the article “Telecom Bosses on Trial for Driving Workers to Suicide.” In the U.K. thousands…
August 22, 1994 YORK, Pennsylvania — After 42 days on the picket line, members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Caterpillar pushed back a company-organized back-to-work campaign. Caterpillar is acting as the point man in the employers’ assault…
