California hospital engineers end strike

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. — After 90 days on the picket line, with Kaiser management still refusing to budge on its insulting concession demands, the 700 stationary engineers on strike at 24 Northern California hospitals ended their strike Dec. 18. Officials of…


Ironworkers end strike at Erie Strayer, win dental plan

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

PITTSBURGH — After 75 days on strike, the 40 members of Ironworkers Regional Shop Local 851 at Erie Strayer Company approved a new contract Dec. 19. It includes a dental plan for the first time and higher wage raises than…


Pallet distribution workers in Manchester strike for 5% pay rise

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

MANCHESTER, 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…



Moscow, Beijing, Washington frame opponents as ‘foreign agents’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Protest at Moscow closing of Memorial that chronicles Stalinist Gulag. Sign: “You can’t kill the memory of the people! We are surviving in poverty, lack of rights, and almost without hope.”

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
Che Guevara at the time of victorious battle of Santa Clara, which sealed the defeat of U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Harry Villegas is at right, Aleida March is second from left. Che played a leading role in everything from literacy classes for Rebel Army combatants in the mountains to theater and ballet for the soldiers under his command in La Cabaña fortress in early 1959.

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…



Fidel Castro: Cuba shows revolution needs Marxist leadership to win

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

The 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…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

“This is all about control for them, control over union rights,” locked-out oil refinery worker Darrell Kyle told the Militant, referring to ExxonMobil bosses’ assault on the United Steelworkers union in Beaumont, Texas. Like other workers walking picket lines, Steelworkers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

January 20, 1997 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty Black farmers and supporters from the National Black Farmers Association — coming from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas — demonstrated in front of the White House December 12 to…