Below are major excerpts from the reply by Yuri Gala, Cuba’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, to the speech by U.S. representative John Kelley after the Nov. 3 U.N. vote condemning Washington’s economic war on Cuba. Mr. Chairman: In…
Workers are being hard hit by soaring prices for food, gas, rents, medical expenses and more. The Militant newspaper — which fighting workers and trade unionists depend on for clarity on politics and as a guide to action — is…
In an unbridled attack on freedom of speech, hundreds of editors, writers, publishers, librarians and a wide variety of other individuals have signed an online petition demanding that Penguin Random House halt plans to publish a book by U.S. Supreme…
The worldwide capitalist crisis is hitting working people hard, with increasing indications that we face an extended period of stagflation — a combination of continued rising prices with falling capitalist production, trade and workers’ jobs. Soaring prices, especially on basic…
The victory won by 55,000 school workers in Ontario, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is an important victory for all working people and our unions. Defying the provincial government’s imposition of a new anti-strike law, they went…
LINCOLN, Neb. — “We surprised Katie Farmer this morning, she did not expect us to greet her with our contract demands — safer working conditions and sick-days-time-off,” Jakob Forsgren, a welder and track repair worker and chair of local Lodge…
November 24, 1997 HAVANA — “In the present international conditions, we reaffirm that socialism is a necessity,” said Cuban leader José Ramón Balaguer to the Oct. 21-23 international workshop here on “Socialism as the 21st Century Approaches.” “The contradiction between…
LONDON — In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war as it drove to overturn the Cuban Revolution. Meetings in Manchester and London marked the 60th anniversary of what has become known as the Cuban…
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Leon was won from Zionism to Marxism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He wrote the book while a leader of the…
