The state of Alabama has set Jan. 25 for the execution of death-row prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, slated to suffer the first execution in the country by suffocation from nitrogen gas, despite the fact that appeals in the case are…
EL CERRITO, Calif. — On Jan. 6 thugs physically attacked counterprotesters here who were defending Israel’s right to exist and fighting for the defeat of Hamas. The attackers screamed epithets, knocked down and bloodied one woman and grabbed two Israeli…
MONTREAL — “Jan. 1 marked the 65th anniversary of the victory of the rebels in Cuba, who were fighting to build a better society based on respect and full dignity of man,” Angélica María Fuentes, Cuba’s consul in Montreal, told…
Some 5,000 tractors and 30,000 protesters brought Berlin’s city center to a standstill Jan. 15 as farmers protested rising prices and German government plans to cut agricultural fuel subsidies, above. Arriving overnight from across the country, farmers parking tractors nose-to-tail…
Speech delivered by Army Gen. Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the revolution, at the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the revolution, at Céspedes Park, Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 1, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution.” He…
Missile attacks launched by Houthi forces in Yemen on shipping in the Red Sea are aimed at weakening Israel. They hope to get Washington to step up pressure on Israel’s rulers to call a cease-fire in Gaza, putting an end…
Articles in the liberal media and by the middle-class left claim that key Israeli government officials admit their genocidal aim is to wipe out the Palestinians in Gaza. There’s just one small problem. The quotes they use are not what…
In one of the biggest outbreaks of social unrest since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, thousands have protested in Baymak, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Baymak is over 850 miles east of Moscow near Russia’s…
LONDON — Some 150,000 teachers, health care workers, bus and train drivers, and other public sector workers stopped work Jan. 18 in the largest union day of action in Northern Ireland in decades. Members of 16 unions picketed and joined…
This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The book records the fight to build a party, proletarian in program and composition, that can lead…
