“I like to see a working person running for office,” Christina Etapa told Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Illinois, when he knocked on her door in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago Sept. 9. “All these…
MIAMI — Some 60 airport workers and supporters rallied at Miami International Airport Aug. 30 to back Envoy Air customer service agents fighting to win their first union contract. Envoy is a subsidiary of American Airlines. Envoy workers do the…
CHICAGO — As of Sept. 7, some 2,074 people have been shot here this year, and 381 of those died. The impact, especially in largely African-American neighborhoods on the South and West sides, has been devastating. And there have been…
Below is an excerpt from James P. Cannon’s The First Ten Years of American Communism, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Cannon was won to the example of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and became a…
September 27, 1993 COLUMBIANA, Alabama — Two striking steelworkers were killed September 7 as they staffed the picket line in front of the National-Standard plant here. A rally has been called for September 26 to show solidarity with the steelworkers.…
The government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who will be sworn in as the new president of Mexico Dec. 1, has already reached a trade pact with Washington, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deal was announced Aug.…
Thousands of working people continue to join protests in Basra and across southern Iraq against the government’s failure to provide basic necessities and the deadly consequences of the Iranian rulers’ military and political influence there. The actions follow years of…
The frantic efforts of liberal Democrats, their backers in media like CNN and the New York Times, the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party, and the middle-class left to overturn the 2016 election and remove Donald Trump from the…
Thousands of United Steelworkers members who work at U.S. Steel voted to authorize union officials to call a strike if a contract agreement isn’t reached with bosses soon. The vote was unanimous at many sites, including Gary, Indiana; Fairfield, Alabama;…
The fight continues against censorship of the Militant by prison authorities in Florida and at the federal facility in Greenville, Illinois. The issues posed are important for defending political rights won in centuries of hard-fought battles and the right of workers…
