In the Aug. 16 Militant, the On the Picket Line article “Aluminum Workers Strike Rio Tinto in Canada” should have said the union is demanding that younger workers be put into more secure defined benefit pension plans instead of the…
August 19, 1996 SANTIAGO DE CUBA — “We will continue fighting each time with more efficiency, more consciousness, more responsibility,” said Cuban president Fidel Castro in his speech on July 26 in Holguín, on the 43rd anniversary of the assault…
This excerpt is from Teamster Power by Farrell Dobbs. The Spanish edition is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The book tells how members of Teamsters Local 574 learned to wield union power through three 1934 strike…
Statement by Vivian Sahner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, Aug. 11. Working people are not only capable of waging mighty revolutionary struggles, we have proven we can win. That is the lesson of the two great…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter. From the end of the Civil War until her death in 1930 at age 100, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones tirelessly…
Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 27. He was one of three Chinese Cuban generals interviewed in the book Our History Is Still Being Written, published by Pathfinder Press. The book…
Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…
August 19, 1996 The following statement was issued July 31 by Socialist Workers Party candidates for U.S. president and vice president, James Harris and Laura Garza. Capitalizing on the explosion of Trans World Airlines flight 800 with the loss of…
August 5, 1996 BELFAST — The crisis of British rule in Northern Ireland intensified as nationalists staunchly resisted rightist marches through their streets and the intimidation of their communities. On July 12 in Derry, the police fired 1,000 plastic bullets…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1). This excerpt is from a report to the…
