Canada rail workers win fight against frame-up

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

SHERBROOKE, Quebec — The rail bosses and federal government were handed a stinging defeat when the three-and-a-half-month frame-up trial of locomotive engineer Tom Harding and train traffic controller Richard Labrie, both members of United Steelworkers Local 1976, and low-level former…


Bosses say more ‘pain’ lies ahead for NY subway riders, workers

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018
Subway commuters run to try and get train after service breaks down in Brooklyn, April 2017. Bondholders rake in billions, while bosses cut maintenance and crews, raise fares.

NEW YORK — Subway riders here don’t need to read thick reports to know the whole system is falling apart — we see it every day. Delays are increasingly frequent because of signal failures, electrical problems, broken down train cars,…


Protests answer article pushing Jew-hatred in Puerto Rico

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

After a barrage of criticism, El Nuevo Día,Puerto Rico’s largest circulation daily, removed from its website the Jan. 8 anti-Semitic article by columnist Wilda Rodríguez titled “What Does the ‘Jew’ Want With the Colony.” In the column Rodríguez repeated the…


Survivors of Grenfell Tower fire demand housing, safety

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

LONDON — Over 2,000 people marched here Jan. 14 to mark seven months since the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 71 people and left hundreds homeless. The fire was fed by cladding on the building’s exterior that was a known…


Cuban Revolution brought millions into political action

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt from The First and Second Declarations of Havana. Its Spanish-language edition is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt is from the preface, written by Mary-Alice Waters, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

February 5, 1993 Another battle in the fight to defend women’s right to abortion has been waged in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of pro-choice activists successfully mobilized against Operation Rescue’s attempt to shut down abortion clinics in that city January 23.…


Workers in Venezuela face challenges in capitalist crisis

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

Workers in Venezuela face growing challenges in the midst of the deepening capitalist economic crisis there, exacerbated by sanctions and other attacks from Washington. Oil production — the country’s main source of hard currency — is at a 28-year low.…


Communist League: Celebrate victory over frame-up!

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

The following statement was released Jan. 21 by John Steele, spokesperson for the Communist League in Canada. Working people across the country and beyond should celebrate the Jan. 19 “not guilty” verdicts in the frame-up trial of locomotive engineer Tom…


‘Militant’ wins overturn of Florida prison ban — again

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

The Florida prison system’s Literature Review Committee says that the impoundment of the Dec. 18 issue of the Militant was a “mistake” and has been reversed. Officials at the Florida State Prison in Raiford banned the issue because of the…


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.…