25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

January 19, 1998 PARIS — Three thousand people marched here January 7 demanding government relief for unemployed workers. Some of the demonstrators carried signs reading “jobs!” Workers have been occupying 26 unemployment offices throughout France with the protests spreading rapidly.…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

George Bryant From his early 20s, to his death on Dec. 26 at 91 years old in a Wallaceburg, Ontario, nursing home, George Bryant was a supporter of the international communist movement and the Cuban Revolution. In the late 1950s,…


Cuba’s socialist revolution is an example for all workers

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Sixty-four years ago, on Jan. 1, 1959, workers and farmers in Cuba brought down one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the Americas, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, opening the door to making a socialist revolution. Led by Fidel Castro…