25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

August 11, 1997 NEW YORK — Fifty-seven workers from Mexico are being held incommunicado and under house arrest by New York City authorities and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The immigrants, including 12 children, were taken into custody following a…



Constitution, Bill of Rights conquest of First American Revolution

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022
Delegates in Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, submit Constitution for ratification by the states. American Revolution, revolts by farmers and other working people won Constitution, as well as Bill of Rights — 10 amendments that codified crucial protections for the working classes.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack. A long-time leader of the Socialist Workers Party, he wrote a number of books on questions of Marxist politics and history. The…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

August 11, 1997 Working people in the United States and around the world should join our brothers and sisters in Cuba in denouncing the latest terrorist bombings of tourist hotels in Havana. Whether the U.S. government has a direct hand…



UAW workers at Case strike for better pay, safer conditions

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
United Auto Workers picket Case New Holland plant in Burlington, Iowa, May 3. Some 430 union members there and 600 in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, are on strike for wages that keep up with inflation and against onerous schedules that tear at workers’ lives and their families.

BY NAOMI CRAINE, JOHN HAWKINS, AND LEROY WATSON BURLINGTON, Iowa —“We’re fighting for wages that will keep up with inflation, and better retirement benefits. And they don’t want to give that to us,” said Gary Binder, a worker at Case…


Cuba’s internationalist volunteers product of socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
Cuban medical brigade at Ebebiyin hospital, Equatorial Guinea, July 28, 2008, with Guinean students, third and fourth from left, is example of internationalism of Cuba’s workers, farmers.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

July 28, 1997 UNITED NATIONS — “We have come to denounce the colonial and imperialistic policies that the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico for the last 99 years,” said Raquel Rivera June 19 at the UN Special Committee…