25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

January 27, 1997 January 15 was the biggest day yet as protest strikes in south Korea entered their fourth week. Union officials say 630,000 workers participated in the strike that day, and tens of thousands flooded the streets of Seoul…



‘Culture enables man to be more complete, revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Che Guevara at the time of victorious battle of Santa Clara, which sealed the defeat of U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Harry Villegas is at right, Aleida March is second from left. Che played a leading role in everything from literacy classes for Rebel Army combatants in the mountains to theater and ballet for the soldiers under his command in La Cabaña fortress in early 1959.

Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces  by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt below is from an interview…


Fidel Castro: Cuba shows revolution needs Marxist leadership to win

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

January 20, 1997 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty Black farmers and supporters from the National Black Farmers Association — coming from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas — demonstrated in front of the White House December 12 to…


Celebrate 63rd anniversary of the revolution in Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Fidel Castro addresses crowd in Havana in January 1959, after triumph over U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. “Before January, a vanguard was the main protagonist in events” in Cuba, Castro said 20 years later, but “since that January, the main protagonist has been the people.”

Below are excerpts from a speech given by Fidel Castro in Havana, Jan. 1, 1979, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and the opening of the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Castro…


Bolshevik Revolution advanced the fight for women’s equality

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Literacy class for women factory workers in Moscow. After Russian Revolution in 1917, Soviet government led by V.I. Lenin aided women in making giant steps forward. This included 1919 literacy drive, fight for equal rights, state guarantee of child care, decriminalized abortion.

One of the central tasks taken on by the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was to organize determined steps toward women’s equality and ability to participate fully in society as part of advancing the revolution. Below…



Solidarity crucial to outcome of labor fights

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

Workers are showing growing confidence today in using our unions to fight against the attacks of the bosses and their government. This is an advance for all working people, including workers yet to be organized, farmers and all those oppressed…