How Cuba’s socialist revolution transformed the working class

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Minister of Industry Che Guevara presents literacy drive banner at paint factory in Havana in November 1961. Don’t try to set “a world record,” he said, but “combine study and work.”

Trying to find out more about the photo on the cover of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada, I and other socialist workers from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom…


Fight for workers control of production, safety

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

Year after year thousands of workers die on the job as a result of speedup and unsafe conditions pushed by the bosses. The lives of these workers will be commemorated by the labor movement on Workers Memorial Day April 28.…


Quebec farmers rally against gov’t policies

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Quebec — More than 65 tractors, with their front bumpers sporting signs such as “Feeding your family is our profession,” came from throughout the region to join a rally of over 300 farmers and their supporters here April 10.…


Help Militant fund drive

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

As this issue goes to press, $82,963 has been received toward the goal of $165,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund, which covers the expenses of the paper. The Militant depends entirely on contributions from working people who value its reporting.…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

May 3, 1999 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — David Sanes, a resident of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, was killed April 19 when two U.S. Navy warplanes on a training mission for the U.S. bombing campaign against Yugoslavia dropped…



Tehran’s aerial barrage marks new stage in assault on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Reactionary Iranian capitalist regime launched 170 drones, 150 missiles in massive barrage against Israel April 13. Above is wreckage of Iranian ballistic missile. Israel has an unconditional right to take all steps needed to stop Tehran’s attacks, future Hamas pogroms against Jews.

The barrage of 320 drones and missiles unleashed by Tehran April 13 is the first attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. It is a deliberate and dangerous escalation of the reactionary Iranian regime’s decades of assaults on Israel…


LA, Oakland SWP speak out against Tehran’s war moves

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
“Fight against Jew-hatred is a life-or-death question for the working class worldwide,” Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for Congress from Pittsburgh, told rally in defense of Israel March 31.

LOS ANGELES — “Yesterday and last night Tehran launched 320 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel. Almost all of them were shot down,” said Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler to an April 14 meeting here. Sandler…


US rulers form new Asia bloc against Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Above, warships from Philippines, foreground, Japan, Australia and U.S. sail in formation off Philippines coast April 7. Inset, China Coast Guard ship fires water cannon at vessel taking supplies to Philippine-occupied shoal in disputed region of South China Sea March 5, area also known as West Philippine Sea.

President Joseph Biden hosted a first-ever joint meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House, April 11. The three government heads announced increased military and economic cooperation. To defend U.S. ruling-class…