Teamster sea salt strikers united in fight with Cargill

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026

NEWARK, Calif. — Going into their seventh week on strike, 120 Teamsters are maintaining their picket lines at the Cargill sea salt plant here fighting for higher wages and a reduction of the huge sums they pay for health insurance.…


Minneapolis condo workers win first contract, make gains

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS — Workers at three large condominium buildings here, members of Service Employees International Union Local 26, have been fighting to win a contract for over a year. To mark this, the union organized a rally and picnic Sept. 12.…


Rail workers face deadly cuts to safety from profit-driven bosses

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026
NTSB exhibit shows where new Union Pacific conductor Justin Pender, 27, was killed riding on the side of a car in a shove move at UP Proviso Yard near Chicago, above, in 2024. A September NTSB report said 14 workers were killed, two more badly injured, in similar moves between 2020 and 2025.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The Militant published an article Aug. 17 on the escalation in deaths and injuries of rail workers caused by the bosses’ stepped-up push for profits that has made working conditions even more dangerous. Two more rail workers…


Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle

Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026
Víctor Dreke, center, Cuban revolutionary leader, at Havana program on his book, Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa Aug. 14. From right, Oscar Oramas, Ana Morales, Jonathan Silberman, Sara Sánchez.

HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at an Aug. 14 presentation here of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of…


V.I. Lenin: ‘The world proletarian revolution is invincible’

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026
V.I. Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Party that led world’s first socialist revolution, speaking in Moscow in 1920 to army leaving for Polish front. Leon Trotsky on stairs at right.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October is Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922 by Farrell Dobbs. It is the second of his two books on Marxist leadership in the U.S. Dobbs was a central leader…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026

October 8, 2001 Washington is positioning its warplanes, troops and warships around Afghanistan, preparing for a brutal assault on the people of that country. At the same time the rulers are not wasting a day in pressing their decades-long offensive…


Union, immigrants join in protest against deepening UK gov’t attacks

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026
Hundreds of immigrant workers came from across U.K. to protest Sept. 28 in Liverpool against deepening attacks on immigrants, overwhelmingly care workers. The rally was called by public sector workers’ union Unison and held outside annual conference of governing Labour Party.

LIVERPOOL, England — “Solidarity forever!” chanted hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters at a protest called by public sector workers’ union Unison. They were protesting against the Labour government’s deepening attacks on immigrants. Overwhelmingly care workers, they came from…


Canadian gov’t deepens attack on unions’ right to go on strike

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026

MONTREAL — In yet another frontal assault on Canadian workers’ right to strike, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced in Parliament a 243-page Building Canada Strong Act on Sept. 21. Designated Bill C-39, the law would change…


NY rally at UN protests spread of Jew-hatred

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026
Shalev Biton, right, was rescued from Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom at the Nova festival, and Younes Alkarnawi, a Bedouin who saved him. They spoke together at New York protest.

NEW YORK — About 1,000 protesters rallied against Jew-hatred near the United Nations headquarters here Sept. 23, in an action called by a broad coalition of Jewish organizations. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the annual U.N.…