UK refuse workers strike for equal pay for agency workers

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

LONDON — Over 200 refuse workers and street cleaners who work for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets voted to return to work Sept. 27. The members of the Unite union had struck Sept. 18 for higher pay. The settlement…


100,000 Quebec public workers fight gov’t attack

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

MONTREAL — Tens of thousands of public workers — 100,000 according to organizers — demonstrated in Montreal Sept. 23 to back up their demands and win support as negotiations with the Quebec government got underway.  The majority were health and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

October 19, 1998 Beating the drums of American nationalism, the U.S. steel bosses have launched a reactionary campaign against steel imports. This campaign is a deadly trap for working people, designed to save steel bosses’ profits, while pitting working people…


Bring labor’s power to bear in UAW strike

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

Striking United Auto Workers at the Big Three are fighting to end conditions that confront tens of millions of workers across the country and beyond. For decades, the capitalist bosses have pushed to defend their profits by a relentless assault…


All out to back UAW strike! Bring labor’s power to bear!

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Over 400 UAW Local 862 members, supporters rallied in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 21, chanting: “Who’s got the power? We’ve got the power! What kind of power? Union power!

TOLEDO, Ohio — United Auto Workers at the Stellantis Assembly Center here have been on strike since Sept. 15, along with autoworkers at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, and General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri. They’ve been joined by walkouts…


Writers Guild discusses new contract, actors continue strike

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023

LOS ANGELES — A tentative settlement in the nearly five-month-long Writers Guild of America strike against the bosses’ Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was announced Sept. 24 after several days of talks between the union negotiating committee and…


SWP campaigns with ‘Militant,’ books, working class program

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Laura Garza, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in California, in San Leandro Sept. 24. She urged workers who signed for party’s right to be on ballot to support striking UAW members.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “When the working class starts to stand up, as they’re doing today, everything changes. More workers start to think, what can I do?” Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, said at a…


UK forum discusses prospects to build the Communist League

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Over the past year 1,000 workers at Amazon sites in U.K., above, have taken 26 days of strike action fighting long hours, low pay. Inset, Communist League leader Jonathan Silberman speaks at Sept. 2 London Militant Labour Forum. CL had met week before, discussed new openings to build revolutionary working-class party.

LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a special Militant Labour Forum here Sept. 2. Silberman was speaking on behalf of the…


Cuban president speaks in Harlem on Malcolm X-Fidel Castro meeting

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel speaks at Malcolm X Center in Harlem, New York, Sept. 18.

NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke about the impact Malcolm X had on a generation of youth and revolutionaries in Cuba during a visit to the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center here Sept.…


James P. Cannon built the SWP as an internationalist party

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Farrell Dobbs, left, and James P. Cannon, center, in Minneapolis, 1941. They were among 18 leaders of Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters facing government frame-up charges as U.S. rulers prepared to drag working people into the second imperialist world war.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September is James P. Cannon As We Knew Him by Farrell Dobbs, Joseph Hansen, George Novack, Jean Tussey, Harry Braverman and 28 other contributors who knew and worked with him. The introduction…