Cuba tells UN: ‘US blockade punishes life of our people’ “The long months living with only two or three hours of electricity a day or less, food spoiling, the heat that makes it impossible to sleep, parents fanning their babies,…
The growing lack of safe drinking water in Cuba today is a product of the U.S. government’s ever-tightening oil blockade and punishing sanctions against the import of energy and other resources. This means a much greater risk of serious health…
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…
The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…
OAKLAND, Calif. — “This is an important book,” Brando Williams told listeners to his Peralta Community College radio show, “The Bottom Half,” Aug. 27, here. Williams was referring to Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The…
The Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen have stepped up their missile and drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities and seized more territory from Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, including the strategic port of Mokha Sept. 11. The reactionary group has taken…
ABINGDON, Va. — “It’s critically important to tell your stories,” Brandon Crum, a radiologist from Pikeville, Kentucky, told the more than 100 coal miners and others gathered at the National Black Lung Association meeting here Sept. 11. “We have momentum…
The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. The excerpt is from the opening section…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
