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March 18-May 16 (week six)

25, 50, and 75 years ago

May 18, 1998 Labor resistance and other political struggles in the working class are accelerating. This resistance is occurring throughout the United States, and parallels the labor struggles that are breaking out in other industrialized countries, from Canada to Australia…

Unions ‘must aim at the emancipation of the downtrodden millions’

Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Below is “Trade Unions: Their Past, Present, and Future,” a resolution written by Karl Marx and adopted in September…

Great Strike of 1877 showed the power of the US working class

The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. After five years of economic depression, West Virginia railroad workers went on strike in the face of wage cuts and…

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

May 11, 1998 MELBOURNE, Australia — Defying cops and court orders, mass picket lines continue to block access to and from Patrick Stevedores’ wharves across the country in support of sacked Maritime Union of Australia members. The company dismissed its…

In Militant issue no. 17, the headline on page 6 was misspelled. It should have read “Back Ukraine independence fight!”

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March 18-May 16 (week five)

Correction

In Militant  issue no. 17, the headline on page 6 was misspelled. It should have read “Back Ukraine independence fight!”

‘A milestone in the struggle for the liberation of southern Africa’

How Far We Slaves Have Come by Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. From 1975 to 1991, hundreds of thousands of volunteer Cuban fighters helped drive out the U.S.-backed South African…