Sixty-four years ago, on Jan. 1, 1959, workers and farmers in Cuba brought down one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the Americas, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, opening the door to making a socialist revolution. Led by Fidel Castro…
Statement by Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, Dec. 28. Recent experiences of millions of working people have driven home the fact that the key division in U.S. politics is not the conflicts between Democrats and…
January 12, 1998 The recent actions by immigration authorities seizing hundreds of workers at factories in Georgia for deportations deserve condemnation. These arrests are aimed at dividing working people and intimidating undocumented workers who try to resist the bosses’ attacks…
“Till,” 2022, a film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu, starring Danielle Deadwyler. BY ILONA GERSH If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of…
To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…
Che Guevara Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Ernesto Che Guevara was an Argentine-born revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and his Rebel Army, becoming an outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution. They…
New Year greetings to our readers behind bars! The Militant will continue to tell the truth about the conditions you face and keep getting news about the struggles of working people worldwide into your hands. 2022 was quite a year!…
January 12, 1998 BOSTON — A meeting here Dec. 10 kicked off a year of activity in solidarity with the struggle of the Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony in the Caribbean, one of the last official…
Ken Evenhuis Ken Evenhuis, a nearly six-decades-long member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died in Los Angeles Dec. 1. He was 77. Ken and his wife, Donna, joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1964, attracted by the SWP…
December 15, 1997 SYDNEY — Prime Minister John Howard has moved to curtail Aboriginal land rights. His proposed amendments to the Native Title Act have been met by protest rallies and public meetings in defense of the customary land use…
