Donate your California gas-tax rebate to the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

The California government is issuing payouts to state residents to “provide relief” from high gas prices. Put it to good use! Send it to the Militant to help us keep getting out the truth about the capitalist crisis and the road…


Defend right to strike! Support rail workers!

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022

Working people have every interest in backing the struggle of rail workers against the attacks of the bosses and opposing government intervention aimed at crippling their use of union power. Both President Joseph Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi seek to…


On eve of WWII, rulers task FBI as Washington’s political police

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Above, armed FBI raid Aug. 8 on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. Inset, Sept. 1 press conference by Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico hits FBI harassment. Democrats seek to refurbish FBI as political police, targeting working class, opponents of imperialist war.

Fifty Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It marks the capitalist rulers’ decision…


‘Solidarity, internationalism at heart of Cuba’s revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Cuban doctors and some patients at Coyah center in Guinea, Jan. 19, 2015. After 12,000 volunteered, Cuba chose the 256 medical personnel to go to West Africa to fight Ebola.

Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Ubieta has written about the work of Cuba’s internationalist doctors and nurses in some of the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022

December 8, 1997 U.S. hands off Iraq! Lift the embargo and get all the “inspectors” out of the country! End the U-2 spy flights and the “no-fly” zones that violate the country’s sovereign air space! That’s what anyone opposed to…




Socialist Workers Party offers road forward

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 16. Socialist Workers Party candidates in 2022 were the only voice saying that politics is not Red vs. Blue, or liberal vs. conservative, but class vs. class. They…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

December 1, 1997 Problems on the railroad have clogged California ports, stranded grain crops in the Midwest, and closed some Gulf Coast petrochemical plants that are unable to get needed materials. The meltdown began early this summer after the Union…


‘Cuba needs no lessons from the US about democracy’

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

Below are major excerpts from the reply by Yuri Gala, Cuba’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, to the speech by U.S. representative John Kelley after the Nov. 3 U.N. vote condemning Washington’s economic war on Cuba.  Mr. Chairman: In…