After working people in Cuba overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and took power, they transformed the country into a sports powerhouse. It leads every nation in the Americas, with the exception of the U.S., in gold…
Working-class families are facing skyrocketing utility bills all across the country as energy monopolies like Con Edison, backed by accommodating government authorities responsible for “regulating” them, are reaping hefty profits. Electricity prices in August surged 31% higher than four years…
MANILA, Philippines — “Women are objectified and commodified. It is a culture that capitalists profit from,” said Virginia Suarez, a lawyer who specializes in women’s and workers’ rights. “When I read this book, I was enriched. Women have to break…
MONTREAL — More than 1,000 people marched in a protest Sept. 27 in Longueuil, just south of Montreal, calling for “Justice for Nooran.” Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old boy whose family are Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by a cop…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Hundreds of striking refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, and other trade unionists marched through the city center and rallied here Sept. 20. The demonstration marked the six-month anniversary of the start of their strike against…
“One of the Holocaust’s worst single atrocities — the murder of 33,771 Jews over two days in September 1941, the start of the ‘Holocaust by Bullets,’” said a press release issued by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center at simultaneous…
“Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s in America,” “Enough warmongering, our tables are empty,” and “No to inflation and high prices, no to war and destruction” were some of the slogans retirees chanted in Kermanshah…
Blacks in America’s Wars by Robert W. Mullen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It recounts the hidden history about Blacks participation in U.S. wars, from the First American Revolution to the Civil War to the…
The speeches at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly began Sept. 23. The central issue on the table is Israel’s fight to destroy Hamas and prevent another Holocaust. This is deeply in the interests of working people…
NEW YORK — Two hundred Teamsters ended a 16-day strike against Perrigo Co., an over-the-counter-drug manufacturer in the Bronx. The workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify a three-year contract Sept. 18. The workers, members of Teamsters Local 210, won higher wages,…
