The Socialist Workers Party’s fall campaign to win 1,350 subscribers to the Militant, sell 1,350 books by party leaders and other revolutionaries and raise $140,000 for the SWP Party-Building Fund is off and running! We’re asking our readers to join…
From the Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution by Víctor Dreke is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. As a high school student, Dreke joined Cuba’s revolutionary movement, then became a Rebel…
WAYNE, Mich. — “There has been a huge hiring at this plant since 2020 — 1,500 to 1,700 workers, all young people starting out at $16.65 an hour. Many of them with families, and they can’t afford much,” Steve Kovich,…
Striking autoworkers taking on the bosses at the Big Three got a big boost from the SMART-TD union of rail conductors, brakemen and engineers, the largest rail union. “What we can do, in addition to not crossing the picket lines…
In an important victory for constitutional rights, a jury in Bellaire, Michigan, acquitted three men Sept. 15 who had been accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. It was the final court proceeding in a three-year…
SEATTLE — Over 200 farmworkers, unionists, and students gathered here Aug. 31 to support farmworkers fighting to organize into a union at Windmill Farms, based in Sunnyside. The event was organized by the United Farm Workers union and Students for…
OMAHA, Neb. — Rail workers and working people near the world’s largest rail yard, Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in nearby North Platte, had another narrow escape Sept. 14. A series of uncontrolled explosions inside a shipping container in the yard…
Demonstrations took place around the world Sept. 16 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died after her arrest by the hated “morality police” in Tehran, accused of violating the dress…
Crushing the Ukrainian nation and its people is at the heart of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determined effort to reestablish the Russian Empire with himself as czar. But his invasion has run up against fierce Ukrainian resistance, with working people…
Drawn together by common interests in countering Beijing’s expansionist course, Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, met with President Joseph Biden in Hanoi Sept. 10. “The United States is a Pacific nation, and we’re not going…
