In the article “‘Anti-Gentrification Fight’ is Pretext for Attack on Art, Culture that Workers Need” in the Oct. 15 issue, Ellie Garcia was misidentified as a rail worker. She is an aerospace worker. The author, Laura Garza, is a rail…
Uber drivers in Australia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere have been organizing work stoppages and other protest actions over the last several weeks in response to bosses’ moves to cut pay and working conditions. These drivers — as well as…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Four leaders of a tomato cannery workers strike at San Benito Foods in Hollister, who were framed up by the bosses and fired last year for participating in the walkout, have won their jobs back. They got…
NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, right, was greeted by a crowd of more than 1,500 at Riverside Church in Harlem Sept. 26. He was here to speak for Cuba at the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations.…
LOS ANGELES — Claiming to be fighting against “gentrification” in Boyle Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood here, small groups of middle-class leftists and anarchists have gone on a campaign to physically attack art galleries, as well as threaten and race-bait…
Tens of thousands marched in Buenos Aires (above) and in 20 other cities in Argentina Sept. 28 to demand a woman’s right to choose abortion. A law to decriminalize most abortions was defeated by a narrow margin in the Argentine…
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Guevara, at Fidel Castro’s side, became one of the central leaders of the world-changing 1959 Cuban Revolution. He describes…
October 18, 1993 Dealing another blow to the myth of “humanitarian” intervention, President Bill Clinton has significantly expanded U.S. forces and armor in Somalia. The battle in the streets of Mogadishu, in which hundreds of Somalis were killed and wounded…
WILMINGTON, N.C. — “People just got back on their feet from Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and now we’ve been hit again by Hurricane Florence,” Samantha Worrell told three worker-correspondents for the Militant Sept. 28. She lives in the small town…
As the civil war in Syria winds down, with dictator Bashar al-Assad still in power, Washington, Moscow and the rival capitalist rulers in the region are maneuvering to protect their economic, political and military interests. And the long-simmering dispute between…
