Rulers in Tehran threaten to widen Middle East war against Israel, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Family, friends at July 28 funeral for 12 Druze children killed day before by Hezbollah missile from Lebanon that hit soccer field in Majdal Shams in Israeli-ruled Golan Heights.

The Israeli people are preparing to defend themselves from threatened new assaults from the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah and other groups in the “axis of resistance.” As the Militant goes to press these attacks…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…


What Hiroshima shows about horrors of nuclear weapons

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…


Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Thousands of Cubans gathered in Sancti Spiritus July 26 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the rebel assault led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons in 1953. It was the beginning of constructing a…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

August 16, 1999 Thousands of working people, youth, soldiers, and others have hit the streets in cities and towns throughout Serbia. They are taking advantage of the first openings since the U.S./NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia began March 24 to express…


How U.S. troops turned against Washington’s war in Vietnam

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Active-duty GIs and retired general, center, lead 500 military personnel in San Francisco anti-Vietnam War protest Oct. 12, 1968. Growing opposition by troops helped win millions of workers at home to turn against the war.

Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. As the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 1968, Halstead, who had…


Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Growing numbers in Iran — including prisoners, retirees and unionists — are demanding an end to the death penalty. “Execution is a medieval and irreversible sentence that can never improve the conditions of society,” Reza Sadeghi wrote July 25 on…


Australia: Nurses in New South Wales rally for more pay, staffing

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

SYDNEY — Nurses and midwives rallied outside public hospitals across New South Wales July 23-24. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association are demanding an immediate 15% pay raise. “We are calling for fairness,” Fran Cavallaro, who works at…


Child care crisis facing working people worsens

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

The crisis of child care for the working class has worsened since the government’s $24 billion pandemic relief program ended last September. Pressures are increasing, especially on women, to quit work in order to look after children, while the rise…


Ukraine writer, shot by Putin’s troops, lives on in secret diary

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Author Victoria Amelina near tree where she dug up diary about Russian occupation by Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children’s book writer. He had buried it before being murdered. Amelina published it in 2023 before she was herself killed by a Russian airstrike.

The story of a Ukrainian author, Volodymyr Vakulenko, executed by invading Russian forces in March 2022 — and the discovery and publication of his hidden journal by his father and a fellow writer — sheds light on the depth of…