25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

November 13, 2000 A bill making it a felony to disclose information about government “secrets” to “unauthorized” persons has been approved by the House and Senate, with little debate and no open hearings, and sent to President Clinton for approval.…


After 3 months on strike, IAM at Boeing rejects offer

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists Local 837 have been on strike for three months at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. On Oct. 26 they voted down the company’s…


Forged by Cuba’s socialist revolution, volunteers help Africa advance

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Guinean medical students about to leave for Cuba for their final year of medical studies in 2005. In striped shirt, Leonardo Ramírez, leader of Cuba’s medical volunteers in Equatorial Guinea. Second from right, Ana Morales, first secretary of Cuban Embassy, and also a doctor.

The Spanish edition of Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The two authors joined a Militant reporting team there in…


Support grows for band opposing Putin’s regime

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

In a sign of the growing rejection of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his brutal war on the toilers in Ukraine, support has continued to mushroom for the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The group — 18-year-old…


Cuba’s socialist revolution: an example

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

Faced with devastation from Hurricane Melissa, Cuba’s government and its people acted to ensure not a single person was killed or left to fend for themselves. In contrast, in Jamaica at least 32 are dead with many hard-hit areas still…


Names of 5 million murdered by Nazis recovered

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, announced Nov. 3 it has now recovered the names of 5 million of the estimated 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. It has taken 37 years to…


Why Marxists oppose Israel drafting Haredi Jews into its army

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Tel Aviv Oct. 30 against moves to draft them into the Israel Defense Forces. Since Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last year that the longstanding exemption from service was illegal, over 870 Haredi…


UK rail union fights against threat of members’ deportation

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

LONDON — Dozens of unionists and others joined an Oct. 15 protest organized by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union outside Parliament here in defense of 200 workers on the London Underground threatened with deportation. In July the Labour…


Nurses at USC hospital fight for breaks, health coverage

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Nurses at University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital on picket line during one-day strike Oct. 30 for a new contract with improved health care coverage and hiring of more staff.

LOS ANGELES — Some 1,800 nurses at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center and Hospital, members of the California Nurses Association, staged a one-day strike Oct. 30 to demand a new contract. “When USC squeezes…