Unionists resist French gov’t attack on pension age

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Paris demonstration, part of March 7 national protests against Macron government proposal to raise retirement age. CGT union banner says, “Decontaminate society of capitalist virus.”

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 continues to meet mass resistance by workers across the country. March 7 was the sixth day of strikes and protests since mid-January, with at…


Support grows for hospital workers on strike in Hawaii

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

MAUI, Hawaii — Two weeks after nearly 500 hospital workers went on strike here against Kaiser’s three Maui Health System facilities, the bosses arrived one hour late for the first negotiating meeting since the walkout began and then broke off…


Women wanted to help, to be part of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Graduation of 8,000 “Anitas,” December 1961 in Havana. Young peasant women each received a sewing machine, pledging to teach 10 others how to sew, and to spread the revolution.

To mark International Women’s Day, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. It is by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela…


Bank failures reflect crisis of capitalism

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

The collapse of three regional banks and the underlying fall in the value of U.S. government bonds caused by rising interest rates is a symptom of the ongoing crisis of capitalist production and trade, and a harbinger of further crises…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

March 30, 1998 DES MOINES, Iowa — Members of the United Steelworkers of America rallied in downtown Des Moines March 6 to support members of the United Auto Workers now in contract talks with Case Corp. The protest aimed its…


Cuban rail workers defend safety, gains of socialist revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Cuba’s first new rail link in two decades was opened between Havana and port of Mariel in 2014. Cuban trains have five-person crews. For 16-hour Havana-Santiago run across the island, two crews work eight-hour shifts each, with sleeping car for those off-duty.

HAVANA — While in Cuba for the Havana International Book Fair in February, several volunteers at the Pathfinder Press stand who are rail workers were able to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s National Union of Transportation and Port Workers…


As battle rages over Bakhmut Defend Ukraine independence!

‘Fight Moscow’s invasion, and for workers’ rights’
Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
Ivan Popov holds sign, “No to the war!” at “Peter the Great” statue in St. Petersburg, Russia, a year into Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Solo pickets, “flower protests,” green ribbon movement keep opposition to Putin’s repressive regime, solidarity with Ukrainian people visible.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin sends wave after wave of Russian conscripts against Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, they confront fierce resistance from Ukrainians determined to defeat the invasion. His regime also faces opposition at home to its war, protests from…


Join campaign to win readers, get out books, fund ‘Militant’

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

Join us in expanding the reach of the Militant! The paper is launching an eight-week campaign to increase its readership, get out books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and raise $165,000 for the paper from March 18-May…


Working people in East Palestine fight for control over their future

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
After derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, burnt-out tank cars flank both sides of rebuilt double track Feb. 12. Norfolk Southern bosses rapidly began shipping again to boost profits. Residents, rail workers committees are needed to take control over cleanup, defend their class interests.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, family farmers and small-business people in this area continue to seek a way to defend their families’ health, homes and livelihoods in the wake of the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train,…


Fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison wins new support

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

The Florida Department of Corrections’ Literature Review Committee “reviewed and overturned the impoundment” at Blackwater River Correctional Facility of the Jan. 30 issue of the Militant on March 9 and says “the publication is being processed for release to the inmate.”…