Author Sesali Bowen provides a justification for the so-called “beauty” industry in the March 4 New York Times, in the name of opposing what she calls the “shaming” of women who use cosmetic surgery. In “What Women Who Criticize Plastic…
The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. The two declarations were adopted by million-strong assemblies of the Cuban…
The U.S. National Network on Cuba announced March 18 that this year’s May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba has been postponed. The decision by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), the organizer…
April 10, 1995 PARIS — A strike wave in France, taking place in the midst of the presidential election campaign, continues to shake up politics here. Walkouts are spreading among postal, railroad, bus and subway workers, as well as to…
The Socialist Workers Party urges workers to fight for the government to take immediate action to protect working people. See the complete March 18 statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. We must demand emergency relief…
“We have a revolutionary duty to fulfill, so we take our fear and put it to one side,” Leonardo Fernández, 68, an intensive care specialist, told Reuters in Havana March 21. He was meeting up with the brigade of 52…
“The strike lines are still up,” Alex Terrazas, United Steelworkers Local 937 union president, told the Militant by phone March 23. Terrazas, a worker at Asarco’s Mission Mine near Tucson, Arizona, was referring to the strike by 1,700 copper miners…
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated the fastest fall ever on the capitalists’ stock markets the world over, posing the need for workers to organize and chart a road forward out of the unfolding economic and social crises. In the U.S.…
Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, issued the following emergency call to action March 18. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s 2020 vice presidential candidate. Workers and our unions need to demand that the government act now to…
The “solutions” to the coronavirus epidemic being implemented by the capitalist rulers in the U.S. — and other capitalist governments around the globe — are to shut down production, slash jobs and tear apart the social fabric for working people.…
