25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

December 6, 1999 In the coal fields today miners are fighting against bosses attempts to gut the lifetime health benefits they won in struggle. Truck drivers are walking the picket lines to win a union at the largest nonunion trucking…


Torture videos show Hamas’ systematic brutality in Gaza

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
Clip from 2019 video shot by Hamas in Jabaliya of prisoner being tortured by Hamas thugs. Along with goal of killing Jews, Hamas has brutalized Palestinians in Gaza since seizing power.

A video of Hamas thugs torturing Palestinians in Gaza is graphic proof that far from being a liberation movement, Hamas is one of the biggest obstacles Palestinian workers and farmers face to be able to defend their class and national…


Workers in Australia protest gov’t takeover of construction union

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

SYDNEY — Over 2,000 construction, electrical and other union workers and their supporters marched and rallied Nov. 12 at the state Parliament here to protest the federal government takeover of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees…


Cuban Revolution forged in ‘extraordinary school of experience’

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024
Che Guevara at First Latin American Youth Congress, July 28, 1960, in Havana. Led by Fidel Castro, millions of workers and peasants took political power and made a socialist revolution.

Che Guevara Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Ernesto Che Guevara was a young Argentine-born fighter who joined Fidel Castro and his Rebel Army to become an outstanding leader of the Cuban…


Welcome to our new readers!

Vol. 88/No. 45 - December 2, 2024

The Militant extends a warm welcome to the 1,316 readers who subscribed to the paper over the past eight weeks, part of a successful campaign to extend the reach of the paper, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and…



UAW holds first strike ever at Georgia automotive parts plant

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024
United Auto Workers Local 472 members on strike against Woodbridge Corp. picket plant in Lithonia, Georgia, Nov. 8. Unionists are demanding better pay, benefits, no forced overtime.

LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United Auto Workers Local 472, told these Militant  worker-correspondents outside the Woodbridge Corp. plant here Nov. 8. “Safety…


Brampton city workers strike for higher wages, improved schedules

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

BRAMPTON, Ontario — Some 1,200 city workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 831, went on strike here Nov. 7. “Bargaining began on March 31, but there has been little progress,” union President Fabio Gazzola told CBC.  He said the…


Dallas Black dancers fight firings for joining union

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

DALLAS — On Nov. 9 fired dancers and 65 supporters picketed at the Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s performances put on with nonunion replacements. In May when the dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists union, the theatre…


Solidarity with food workers strike in U.K. for union rights

Vol. 88/No. 44 - November 25, 2024

WREXHAM, North Wales — Several hundred Unite union members at Oscar Mayer rallied here Nov. 8, one of almost daily actions marking their determination to win their nine-week strike.  The walkout began after the large majority East European workforce was…