My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Under V.I. Lenin, Trotsky was a central leader of the Russian Revolution, including as foreign minister of the young Soviet…
The course of the Turkish and Syrian governments, alongside intervention by Washington, Moscow, Tehran and others, is exacerbating the disastrous consequences of earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey Feb. 6. More than 45,000 people have died as of Feb. 17,…
ATLANTA — Hundreds of coal miners who have been on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, for the past 22 months and their families heard from United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts Feb. 15 that the…
Under capitalism, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters are turned into social catastrophes that fall in sharply different ways on different social classes. They strike workers and farmers with special ferocity. Countless lives are lost because bosses ignore basic safety…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Talking to residents here and in nearby areas, Militant worker-correspondents find they continue to feel frustrated and angry about the lack of information and help they are getting since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment here.…
SAN FRANCISCO — International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco Feb. 16, part of international protests demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Framed up on charges of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel…
MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in Montreal’s provincial by-election in the Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne riding, turned in all the petitions and was declared on the ballot Feb. 20 for the Quebec National Assembly. Over the February 18-19 weekend, more than…
March 9, 1998 NEW YORK — The theme of “100 Years of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism: Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines” drew 200 here Feb. 19. Félix Wilson, first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, explained that…
The Militant is winning broad support in its fight to overturn the ban on a recent issue of the socialist newsweekly by Blackwater River Correctional Facility officials in Florida. The privately run prison banned issue no. 4 on Feb. 1,…
The article “Working People in Ukraine Fight New War Moves from Moscow,” in issue no. 8 should have said Transnistria is an enclave in eastern Moldova, not western Moldova.
