ATLANTA — “We are going to do whatever it takes to win this strike,” United Mine Workers of America union member and Warrior Met Coal striker Steven Smith told the Militant Sept. 23. “We’re not going to give up the…
Tim Craine, a longtime member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for five decades, died of leukemia Sept. 25 in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 77. He was the party’s candidate for governor of Michigan in 1982 and…
Under the banner of opposing “gender oppression,” middle-class left and liberal groups are dealing blows to the fight for women’s emancipation. In response to recent attacks on women’s right to choose abortion, the American Civil Liberties Union Sept. 18 tweeted…
(For a French version of this article, click here.) Blaise Compaore, the iron-fisted ruler of Burkina Faso for almost three decades, will stand trial along with 13 others before a military tribunal Oct. 11 for the 1987 assassination of former…
Problems of Women’s Liberation by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Reed was a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party from 1940 until her death in 1979. She wrote and spoke about…
MONTREAL — Some 2,000 workers at a score of hotels organized by the CSN (Federation of National Trade Unions) held a one-day strike in Quebec Sept. 17. Three big rallies took place here, in Quebec City and in Sherbrooke. “On…
October 14, 1996 Workers, farmers, youth, and all defenders of civil liberties need to protest moves by Washington to undermine the democratic rights of opponents of U.S. policy toward Cuba and defend those threatened with fines, imprisonment, or firings for…
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the existing “global structural inequities and crisis,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 23. “The most vulnerable have been left unprotected,” while pharmaceutical companies have reaped…
The right to choose whether or not to bear children, including how many, has to be a private, personal matter for all women. This is fundamental for women being able to control and plan their own lives. Fighting for that…
More workers are joining together, standing up to employer attacks and demands for concessions, and discovering what we are capable of when we use our unions to defend ourselves. Most strikes today are aimed at preventing bosses from destroying vital…
