One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields of Oriente to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces by Luis Alfonso Zayas. This year is the 70th anniversary of the…
The Militant tells the truth about all the key working-class questions today — from the strike battles taking place to the fight to defend crucially needed constitutional freedoms. We urge our readers to join with us to get the broadest…
On June 13 Keith and Valori Radonis, parents in rural Maine, filed a lawsuit against the state, challenging discriminatory school funding policies. This was the sixth lawsuit filed since 1994 against state officials seeking to uphold freedom of religion protected…
WHITEMARSH, Pa. — Shortly before 5 a.m. on July 17, more than 15 cars on a 40-car CSX freight train, including at least one marked as hazardous, derailed here, 16 miles north of Philadelphia. This led to the immediate evacuation…
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote June 30 ruled that a Colorado commercial website designer has the right under the First Amendment — which protects free speech from government interference — to refuse to endorse messages she disagrees…
Dozens of veterans and their families rallied outside the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation in Tehran July 8, above, chanting, “Yesterday’s soldiers, today’s hungry.” They were protesting government plans to slash their pensions and other benefits amid the deepening capitalist economic…
ATLANTA — “We need to recognize the common interests of those whose freedom of speech is under attack,” Dr. Aisha Fields, a leader of the African People’s Socialist Party from Huntsville, Alabama, told participants at a July 16 Militant Labor…
LONDON — In a bipartisan assault on political rights, a parliamentary committee moved to suspend former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Parliament before he resigned June 9. The move threatens freedoms that are needed and used by working people.…
MONTREAL — Some 7,400 longshore workers on Canada’s West Coast docks, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada, were set to go back on strike July 19, after the union’s leadership rejected a tentative deal that had ended…
July 28, 1998 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Chants of “Huelga! Huelga!” (Strike! Strike!) thundered at dawn as close to 1,000 unionists blocked the highway entrance to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport here July 7. It was the first…
