Month: January 2022
Oppose rulers’ attacks on political rights!
Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022For decades the capitalist rulers in Washington have used the FBI — their political police — to spy on, disrupt and frame up militant workers, Black rights fighters, opponents of its wars, and communists, and to make a mockery of…
Australia refugees fight detention, rotten conditions
Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022SYDNEY — Australia’s ruling capitalist families have a long history of harsh border control measures against refugees trying to land by boat. Beginning in 2012, Canberra began paying the governments of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to run detention centers…
Thousands strike King Soopers groceries in Colorado
Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022
ARVADA, Colo. — Some 8,400 grocery store workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, went out on strike Jan. 12 at 87 stores in the region. They are fighting for better wages and working conditions, and against…
‘Militant’ Renewal Drive January 1 – February 15
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022Moscow, Beijing, Washington frame opponents as ‘foreign agents’
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
As they deepen their assaults on working people and political rights, the regimes in Moscow and Beijing are trying to silence political opponents by smearing them as “foreign agents.” Washington condemns these two rivals for repression, but has used the…
‘Culture enables man to be more complete, revolutionary’
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt below is from an interview…
Pittsburgh protests demand ‘Charge officers now!’ in killing of Jim Rogers
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
PITTSBURGH — “Charge these officers now!” chanted 20 protesters outside the City-County Building here Dec. 17, demanding the cops who repeatedly stunned Jim Rogers with Tasers Oct. 13 be charged. Rogers died in the hospital the next day. His family…
Fidel Castro: Cuba shows revolution needs Marxist leadership to win
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…
Pallet distribution workers in Manchester strike for 5% pay rise
Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022MANCHESTER, England — “Our claim is for a 5% rise in our wages, the company is offering 2%,” Malcolm Bostock, a Unite union representative, told the Militant on the picket line at the CHEP U.K. plant in Trafford Park. CHEP…