MANILA, Philippines — Over 150,000 people took part in the 40th Manila International Book Fair here Sept. 11-15. Above, fairgoers line up outside the exhibition hall on opening day. Many were high school and university students, and other youth. Because…
As nearly 50,000 United Auto Workers union members battle GM bosses, government raids and attacks in the big-business press, they are also being targeted by an anti-labor outfit that calls itself the Socialist Equality Party and its so-called Autoworker Newsletter.…
October 3, 1994 ROSETOWN, Saskatchewan — Unionized since 1936, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Canada’s largest grain-handling company, had never been struck by its employees. But after months of rancorous negotiations marked by the big cooperative’s demands for contract concessions, the…
Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job Sept. 16 in the union’s first nationwide strike against General Motors in 12 years. The strike is part of an uptick in labor actions fueled by lower unemployment…
Malcolm X Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Malcolm broke from the Nation of Islam, headed by Elijah Muhammad, to become the outstanding leader of the struggle for Black liberation in the United States in…
The following statement by Helen Meyers, Socialist Workers Party candidate for St. Paul City Council, was released Sept. 18. The nearly 50,000 autoworkers on strike against attacks by bosses at General Motors are fighting not just for themselves, but for…
CUMBERLAND, Ky. — Miners laid off and robbed of their wages by Blackjewel coal bosses July 1 are keeping up their encampment they set up July 29 to block the railroad track. They organized the protest on the tracks leading…
BY A RAIL WORKER IN MONTREAL The rail bosses’ drive for profit claimed the lives of two more union brothers and rail workers in North America in August. On Aug. 15, in Vaughn, Ontario, 27-year-old train conductor and Teamsters union…
In a victory for the Gibson family and working people, Lorraine County, Ohio, Judge John Miraldi Sept. 9 denied motions by Oberlin College asking him to either grant them a new trial or overturn the jury verdict finding the college…
MONTREAL — About 30 petrochemical workers employed by Royal Vopak Co. have been on strike since July 2 here and in Quebec City. They are members of Unifor Local 175C. Unifor is the biggest private-sector union in Canada. The workers…
