Communist continuity backing Ukraine independence

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

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…


Striking bakery workers win support in hard-fought battle

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022
Striking members of BCTGM Local 37 in Los Angeles County have been on strike against Jon Donaire since Nov. 3. Unionists, supporters joined them Feb. 3 for rally in Boyle Heights.

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,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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…


‘Militant’ backs Ukraine independence

What is behind the events in Eastern Europe?
Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Map shows where 130,000 Russian troops are amassed around Ukraine’s borders, posing the danger of war.

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…


Defend right to strike, political rights!

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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…


Thomas Sankara spoke for the oppressed all over the world

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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…


Join Socialist Workers Party, ‘Militant’ in campaigning

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Florida governor, joins Miami protest over U.S. economic war against Cuba Jan. 30. At heart of SWP’s campaign is explaining the working class needs to take political power “as workers and farmers in Cuba did,” Fruit said.

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…


Thousands march in Havana to honor Martí, Cuban Revolution

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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…


Steelworkers strike enters 4th month in West Virginia

Rail track workers join picket line in solidarity
Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Steelworkers picket Special Metals in Huntington, West Virginia, Jan. 22, fighting bosses’ push to jack up health insurance costs and refusal to raise pay. Rail workers joined the picket line.

“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…


BNSF bosses get court to outlaw national rail strike

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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…