Month: May 2026

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, Fighting Fund: March 14 – May 12 (week seven)

4,000 hotel and restaurant workers on strike in Norway

OSLO, Norway — Striking workers in the hotel and restaurant industry mobilized for the May Day march here. They are part of an expanding nationwide walkout by over 4,000 members of the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions and the…

25, 50 and 75 years ago

May 14, 2001 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The decision of the U.S. Navy to resume its military exercises and bombings on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques has touched off protests in Puerto Rico, in the United States, and…

US hands off Cuba! Defend Cuban sovereignty!

Protests are needed now in the U.S. and worldwide against suffocating new sanctions Washington has imposed on Cuba, and to demand an immediate end to the U.S. rulers’ oil blockade. These new measures intensify Washington’s relentless economic and political war…

Workers and farmers in Cuba proved socialist revolution is possible

The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas adopted by the Cuban people is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Between the 1960 and 1962 declarations, both given by Fidel Castro…

Support Israel’s fight against Tehran, Hamas, Hezbollah

Well before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Militant explained working people must oppose Jew-hatred and why. Hamas, backed by the reactionary regime in Tehran, slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel that day because they were Jewish or worked side by…

May Day appeal by Ukraine unions blasts Moscow’s war

Frustrated by recent losses on the battlefield, Moscow is intensifying its missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, targeting homes, apartment buildings and workplaces, as well as energy, transportation and other civilian infrastructure. In a statement released for International Workers’…

Hundreds of thousands march in Cuba May 1

Hundreds of thousands marched and rallied in Havana, above, May 1, International Workers’ Day, under the slogan “The Homeland must be defended.” Led by the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC), Cuba’s trade union federation, huge crowds of unionists, students…

Support oil refinery workers on strike at Marathon!

MARTINEZ, Calif. — Workers walked off the job at Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s renewable fuels refinery here at 12:01 a.m. April 27. The company announced it was going to impose its “final” proposed contract on the 120 members of United Steelworkers…

Help take ‘Militant’ campaign over top!

As we go into the final week of campaigning in the international 2026 spring drive, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are organizing to go over the top in…