‘We’re prepared for drawn-out battle with Republic’

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

Hundreds of Teamsters members on strike against Republic Services, one of the largest trash-hauling companies in the U.S., are determined to continue to fight to win better wages and health insurance. More than 400 workers in the Boston area, along…



‘Women wanted to participate in the revolutionary process’

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro with members of the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon of the Rebel Army in 1958. He is between Teté Puebla, left, and commander Isabel Rielo. Socialist revolution drew women, workers, blacks and peasants to transform themselves and Cuba.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September is the Spanish edition of Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. It is by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela de…


Aluminum workers in Iran fight for union, job safety

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Aluminum workers in Iran fight for union, job safety

Sept. 9 rally at Arak Aluminum Company in Iran’s Markazi province, on 42nd day of hunger strikes and other protests by 4,000 workers. They are demanding higher wages, job safety and end to harassment by bosses, who are trying to…


Stalinists cover up role in Hiroshima atomic bomb slaughter

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Newspaper of U.S. Communist Party hailed Washington’s atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.

The U.S. Communist Party, true to its Stalinist tradition, is attempting to rewrite history to cover up its role in championing the murderous atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. imperialist rulers 80 years ago. Marking this anniversary…


Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufacturing plant here. Over 200 workers at the plant, members of Laborers’ International Union of North America…


US hands off Venezuela! Get US warships, bombers out of Caribbean

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Sept. 7 protest in Puerto Rico against Washington’s plan to use the island as a military base for attacks on Venezuela and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The U.S. rulers have a long history of military operations in Puerto Rico and attacks on the struggle for independence there.

The U.S. military cold-bloodedly killed 11 people on a speedboat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela Sept. 2, violating the sovereignty of Venezuela, other Caribbean nations and beyond. President Donald Trump claimed, without providing any evidence, the boat…


Widespread protests continue as Indonesia gov’t cracks down

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Delivery workers in Indonesia join anti-government protest Sept. 2. When a delivery worker was killed by police, workers in nearby countries responded by donating food orders to drivers.

Since Aug. 25 at least 10 protesters have been killed, dozens are missing and more than 3,000 arrested by government troops and police in Indonesia. In the midst of a deepening economic crisis, demonstrations erupted against President Prabowo Subianto after…


Hotel workers strike at Hilton Americas in Houston

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

HOUSTON — Members of UNITE HERE Local 23 began a historic strike at the Hilton Americas-Houston in downtown on Labor Day. “This is the first hotel strike in Texas,” striker Maria Vasquez told the Militant. She has worked at the…


Advance notice…

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

The Socialist Workers Party is preparing for a fall campaign to expand the readership of the Militant and books by party leaders and other revolutionaries, as well as raise $140,000 for the party’s work. The dates for the eight-week drive…