DECATUR, Ga. — “This is the best booth here!” more than one participant at the Oct. 4 Decatur Book Festival told volunteers staffing the Pathfinder Books booth from Atlanta. The one-day event in this Atlanta suburb was attended by thousands…
Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying out a new Holocaust today. Since President Donald Trump announced his 20-point “peace”…
Thousands gathered across the U.S., in Israel and around the world Oct. 7 to mark the second anniversary of the deadly pogrom carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas and to demand the release of all the remaining hostages. Hamas thugs murdered…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Public service workers here represented by the B.C. General Employees’ Union are expanding their strike over wages and conditions, and winning widespread labor support. Over 5,000 strikers and their supporters marched and rallied in Victoria Oct. 6…
Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso. He had been won to Marxism before…
Combating Jew-hatred and defending the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews is a dividing line among all those who claim to speak for the working class. That remains true today, as Washington tries to shut down…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A severe earthquake rocked the Philippines island province of Cebu Sept. 30. Its aftermath became a social catastrophe for tens of thousands of working people in the region. Two days after the 6.9-magnitude quake, the death…
PHILADELPHIA — UNITE HERE Local 274 members at two union-organized Philadelphia hotels went on strike Oct. 5. There are 150 union workers at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, and 40 at Hampton Inn Center City. This is the first strike at…
ABINGDON, Va. — Some 80 people attended the annual National Black Lung Association conference here Oct. 3, the first time it’s been held in Virginia. “We demand the Department of Labor enforce the new silica rule,” Vonda Robinson, vice president…
OTTAWA, Ontario — Some 500 drivers for the Blue Line Taxi company, members of Unifor Local 1688, have been on strike here since Sept. 19. They voted to walk out by 94%. Many striking drivers joined an Oct. 1 solidarity…
