‘Women wanted to participate in the revolutionary process’

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro with members of the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon of the Rebel Army in 1958. He is between Teté Puebla, left, and commander Isabel Rielo. Socialist revolution drew women, workers, blacks and peasants to transform themselves and Cuba.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September is the Spanish edition of Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. It is by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela de…


Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufacturing plant here. Over 200 workers at the plant, members of Laborers’ International Union of North America…



UAW strikes at GE Aerospace over health care costs, schedules

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

EVENDALE, Ohio — “We are more unified now than ever. We’re getting union and community support. Last week Sean O’Brien, international president of the Teamsters union, joined our picket line,” Don Luknis, second shift safety committee person of United Auto…


‘We’re prepared for drawn-out battle with Republic’

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

Hundreds of Teamsters members on strike against Republic Services, one of the largest trash-hauling companies in the U.S., are determined to continue to fight to win better wages and health insurance. More than 400 workers in the Boston area, along…


BCTGM workers at Teasdale make gains, end 3-month strike

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
BCTGM members celebrate winning new union contract in three-month strike at Teasdale Latin Foods in Hoopeston, Illinois. They got broad labor solidarity that helped win the fight.

HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…


Large rally in the UK opposes anti-Semitism

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Communist League table at Sept. 7 antisemitism march.

LONDON — Communist League campaigners joined tens of thousands at a national march called by the Campaign Against Antisemitism here Sept. 7 to protest the sharp rise in Jew-hating attacks since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom. “I agree with that,”…


Rulers use ‘sex crimes’ to attack constitutional rights

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

The Special Treatment Unit at Avenel, New Jersey, sounds like a medical center. In fact it’s a prison facility where people are held indefinitely and without trial, after having already completed their full prison sentences on charges of rape and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

September 18, 2000 WASHINGTON — They came from cities and towns around the country. Thousands of people converged on the nation’s capital August 26 to demand an end to cop brutality and harassment. The march, which drew between 10,000 and…


‘Workers must fight to take political power’

Break with ‘lesser evil’ capitalist politics
Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Paul Mailhot, right, SWP candidate for New York mayor, at march for Puerto Rico’s independence Aug. 31. “A free Puerto Rico will strengthen the hand of workers in U.S.,” he said.

NEW YORK — “Increasing numbers of working people in the U.S. and worldwide can see that the imperialist ruling classes of the world are steadily marching humanity toward World War III, with everything that means in the age of nuclear…