‘Social solidarity: Moral foundation of Cuba’s revolution’

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Cuban teacher in Luanda, Angola, with students, largely youth orphaned by apartheid South Africa’s invasions from 1975 to 1988. Cuba’s 425,000 volunteers, military and civilian, helped defeat South African forces. “The principles of our revolution are the moral foundation of our struggle,” Puebla said.

The Spanish edition of Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the victorious…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021

November 4, 1996 PARIS — Nearly two million public workers struck and some 200,000 demonstrated throughout France against government austerity measures on October 17. France is in the midst of a worsening economic crisis. Economic activity has declined in three…


Maoism: An anti-working-class record of defeats around the world

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Indonesian Communist Party youth under guard by military, Oct. 30, 1965, after coup. Over a million were killed as counterrevolutionary Maoist misleaders led working people into a slaughter.

As he moves to tighten state control over the Chinese economy, President Xi Jinping is portraying his regime and its policies as the continuation of the teachings of Mao Zedong. Mao commanded the Stalinized Chinese Communist Party, from the late…



Kellogg strike is in the interest of all workers!

Bakery workers: ‘Equal pay for equal work’
Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Support rally Oct. 13 at BCTGM picket line at Kellogg’s plant in Memphis, Tennessee. Union is fighting bosses’ push to force permanent two-tier lower wages and benefits on new hires.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just after midnight Oct. 4 nearly 300 members of Local 252G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union walked out at Kellogg’s plant here. Some 1,400 workers are on strike nationwide at the…


Cereal maintenance workers in UK fight wage cuts

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

BURTON LATIMER, England — Maintenance engineers at Weetabix breakfast cereal manufacturing plants are fighting attacks on their schedules and wages. Members of the Unite union just concluded the third of 11 planned weekly two-day work stoppages Oct. 6. “The company…


Michigan auto-parts workers strike, win UAW union

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Some 340 workers won union recognition for the United Auto Workers after a weeklong strike in September at auto-parts supplier ZF International at its Marysville, Michigan, plant. The axle factory was previously owned by Fiat Chrysler and had been under…


‘We are fighting for respect,’ say Montreal hotel strikers

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

MONTREAL — To the sound of loud cheers and music, Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) strikers from the Hilton hotel in Quebec City joined DoubleTree hotel pickets here Oct. 5. The joint action by the workers was called in…


Fight Texas law that attacks a woman’s right to choose abortion

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Two days after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered an injunction blocking a Texas law that severely restricts a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the Texas…


SWP campaign builds support for workers’ struggles today

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Beverly Bernardo, left, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal, marches with day care workers’ union in Montreal Oct. 12 during two-day strike over wages, working conditions.

The first week of the international combined drive to expand the readership of the Militant and communist literature and raise funds for the Socialist Workers Party shows the growing interest in discussing how workers can win support for union struggles…