As President Vladimir Putin demands Ukraine submit to Russian domination, Ukrainian workers and farmers are mobilizing to defend their independence. Putin rails against V.I. Lenin and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution he led for its support to self-determination for those fighting…
LOS ANGELES — “We’ve been on the picket line rain and shine,” striker Elvia Castillo told a rally here outside a Baskin-Robbins store in Boyle Heights Feb. 3. “When you have to wake up early to be on the line,…
February 17, 1997 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “You are a heart-warming sight,” Martin McGuinness told a crowd of 40,000 marchers here Feb. 2, the culmination of four days of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre by British…
A substantial and growing Russian troop mobilization is arrayed today on all sides of Ukraine — from Russia itself, to occupied Crimea, Belarus and Russian-run Transnistria. This mobilization — and the threat of war on Ukrainian soil — is aimed…
Operating craft workers on the BNSF Railway — the second largest in the country -— are up in arms against the bosses’ unilaterally imposing a new and more onerous absentee policy, and are determined to take strike action. But the…
We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In August 1983 Sankara led a revolution in the former French colony of…
The international Militant subscription renewal drive is giving a boost to Socialist Workers Party election campaigns that have been announced in six states with more to come. At the center of the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 drive is getting…
Tens of thousands of Cuban workers and youth marched in Cuba’s provinces Jan. 27, the eve of the 169th birthday of Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. Called the March of the Torches, this annual event celebrates the anti-imperialist and revolutionary…
“Union power! Who’s got the power? We got the power! Union power!” These were the chants on the picket line in front of Special Metals in Huntington, West Virginia, Jan. 22. Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 on…
SEATTLE — Bosses on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the second largest of the seven Class I lines in the U.S., announced in early January that as of Feb. 1 they would unilaterally impose “Hi-Viz,” a new and…
