‘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…



Tennessee prisons ban Malcolm X, block subscription to the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Officials at South Central Correctional Facility, a privately run state prison in Clifton, Tennessee, sent back a shipment of three books a prisoner there ordered from Seattle-based Books for Prisoners in November. They wrote on the packing slip: “Malcolm X…


FBI uses informers, entrapment to bring kidnap charges in Michigan

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Thousands paid their respects at home of Black Panther Party chair Fred Hampton after he and Mark Clark were set up by FBI informants and killed there by Chicago cops, Dec. 4, 1969. Entrapment by FBI in Michigan case continues frame-up methods used against working people.

At least 12 FBI informants and three FBI agents worked together to egg on and entrap 14 men, and then frame them up for supposedly plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Party Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in late 2020. In September 2020…


Website upgrade eases search for revolutionary books

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Recent enhancements to the website of Pathfinder Press — www.pathfinderpress.com — make it easier for working people and youth to find their way to books presenting the lessons of 175 years of revolutionary working-class struggle, through the eyes of participants,…


Actions protest U.S. economic war against Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Nearly 100 people, a majority Cubans and Cuban Americans, gathered Jan. 30 at City Hall in Miami to demand an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba. A close to 100-car caravan then circled through the Little Havana neighborhood for…


History of the fight for Ukrainian independence

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

With the threat of Moscow’s troops crossing the border against the people of Ukraine — launching the first serious land war on European soil in decades — class conscious workers worldwide side with the long fight of Ukrainian toilers for…


Cops in North Carolina kill 2 unarmed men

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two deadly police shootings of unarmed men in North Carolina within days of each other provoked an outcry and protests demanding the facts about what really transpired. In Fayetteville, on Jan. 8, off-duty Cumberland County Deputy Sheriff…


Chevron refinery workers rally as contract expiration nears

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Chevron oil workers, members of USW Local 5, rally outside gate of company’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, Jan. 27 in fight for new contract with wage raise to cover rising prices.

RICHMOND, Calif. — “Power in solidarity” read one of the signs carried by the more than 100 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 outside the main gate of the Chevron oil refinery here Jan. 27. The maintenance workers and process…


New union votes set at Amazon Alabama, New York warehouses

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board has set a second union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin Feb. 4, ruling the notoriously anti-union company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, intimidated workers and corrupted the earlier vote. The…