‘What a truly radical reading of the human past looks like’

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Below is a review by Peter W. Wood of the new Pathfinder title Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity. Wood is the author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project; president of the National Association of Scholars…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

June 9, 1997 TEHRAN, Iran — More than one million people attended the 10th Tehran International bookfair, held April 26-May 5. Most of the books presented were in Farsi, Arabic, and English, including titles from more than 1,300 Iranian publishers…



Socialist Workers Party to host Int’l Conference

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

The Socialist Workers Party is hosting its annual International Conference June 9-11 at Wittenberg University in Ohio. If you’re excited by what you read in the Militant about the program and activities of the party, and if you are considering…


Fidel Castro: ‘Maurice Bishop was a true revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro at 1980 May Day rally in Cuba. Castro said Grenada Revolution was ”a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean” worthy of support.

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

June 2, 1997 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Anzac Day celebrations here were seized on by capitalist politicians and media to glorify past military adventures of New Zealand imperialism, and to gain support for the government’s push to refurbish the country’s…




How CIO unions fought racist discrimination in World War II

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
1942 rally organized in New York by March on Washington Movement demands an end to racist discrimination in the armed forces and the country’s war industries, as well as denouncing the lynching of framed-up Black sharecropper Odell Waller in Virginia.

Below is an excerpt from Fighting Racism in World War II: From the Pages of the ‘Militant,’ one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It provides a week-by-week account of struggles against discrimination and lynch-mob terror from 1939…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

May 26, 1997 HAVANA, Cuba — “Where did you serve on your first mission as an internationalist?” Cuban journalist Luis Báez asks Ulises Rosales del Toro, division general of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and chief of staff of the…