‘Cuban women have always been on the front lines of the struggle’

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
“March of the Pencils” in Havana Dec. 22, 1961, celebrates success of literacy campaign. About 250,000 volunteers, a majority young women, taught 700,000 adults to read and write.

Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla became second in command of the first all-female platoon in…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

November 3, 1997 SANTA CLARA, Cuba — “We come not to bid farewell to Che and his heroic comrades, but to welcome them,” Cuban president Fidel Castro told an overflow crowd in the Ernesto Che Guevara Plaza Oct. 17. “I…


Solidarity with miners! No worker has to die!

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Statement issued Oct. 19 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas. A former coal miner, Kennedy was part of a Militant reporting team to Soma, Turkey, in 2014. The methane gas explosion in the state-owned Turkish…


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Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

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Demand Washington end its economic war on Cuba! Now!

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT
Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022
Crews repair electrical grid Sept. 30 in Pinar del Rió after Hurricane Ian. There is no better moment to explain the facts and win working people to oppose U.S. economic war on Cuba.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English or Spanish           The following statement was released Oct. 11 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The Socialist Workers Party demands that…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022

October 27, 1997 NEW YORK — “We are here and we are not leaving,” chanted hundreds of people in Spanish, marching through Manhattan in defense of immigrant rights October 12. Among the marchers were workers and young people born in…


Letters

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022

Berni Kuhn Berni Kuhn, a long-time supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Sept. 19. She had been a member in the Minneapolis and Albuquerque branches. Berni was a reader and kept informed on politics. Despite long-term health problems,…