‘Enshrining’ abortion weakens fight for women’s rights

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

Based on false claims that the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs’ ruling in 2022 threatened to make women’s right to choose to have an abortion illegal nationwide, Democrats put initiatives on the ballot in 10 states this year to “enshrine” abortion…


Spread the word, build support for union fights

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Members of Unite union on strike at Oscar Mayer in Wrexham, North Wales, rally Oct. 24 to press fight against wage cut, win union recognition.

The outcome of the U.S. elections has done nothing to deter the bosses from putting the crisis of their capitalist system onto the backs of working people. And it has done nothing to quell workers’ determination to use unions to…


‘Solidarity, internationalism at heart of Cuban Revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Cuban medical workers with recovered Ebola patients in Guinea in 2015. Within three days, 12,000 Cubans volunteered to join the hazardous international mission, Ubieta writes.

Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta Gómez is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Earlier Ubieta visited remote areas of Central and Latin America and the Caribbean to cover…


‘Unions are stepping forward to take on the bosses attacks today’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks with Boeing striker Howard Allen on picket line in Everett, Washington, Oct. 5, about key issues facing workers today.

‘We learned a lot in our campaign’: an interview with Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, presented the SWP’s working-class program…


Join campaign to expand reach of the ‘Militant,’ books, fall fund

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — With the 2024 election over and President-elect Donald Trump preparing his administration, members of the Socialist Workers Party are finding ongoing interest among working people in the party’s program and activity. Workers want to discuss what…



Milk-Bone strikers fight attacks on health care, win labor support

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Teamster Local 446 members join BCTGM Milk-Bone strikers Nov. 10 in Buffalo, New York.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some 30 members and supporters of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G were on the picket line at the J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone factory here Nov. 10 when Militant worker-correspondents arrived to bring solidarity.…


Conference to build solidarity with Cuba across Asia meets in Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Participants in 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba in Beijing Oct. 29. In front from left, Ambassador Phouangkeo Langsy, vice president of Laos-Cuba Friendship Association; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Bijay Kumar Padhihari, general secretary, Indian Society for Cultural Co-Operation and Friendship; H.E. Mrs. Nin Saphon, National Assembly of Takeo Province, Cambodia.

BEIJING — The 65-year-long punishing sanctions imposed by Washington against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution were condemned by participants at the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, held here Oct. 29-30. The meeting took place as…



Moscow admits its strategy is to ‘destroy Ukraine’s people’

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
Damage from bomb attack by Moscow on a supermarket in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nov. 3, wounding 15. Moscow says its goal is to target, kill, demoralize working people and break their spirit.

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is openly admitting to a deliberate course of systematic murder, targeting Ukrainian civilians with drones, bombs and missiles. Small drones now zero in and drop grenades. “The West is faced with a choice,”…