‘Decisive battles for future of humanity will be fought in the US’

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
Some 20,000 GIs meeting in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 15, 1946, demand they be demobilized and sent home. Protests prevented U.S. rulers, who emerged as victors out of the imperialist slaughter, from plan to send troops against revolutions unfolding in China, elsewhere in Asia.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is The Struggle for Socialism in the “American Century”: Writings and Speeches, 1945-47 by James P. Cannon, then national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The U.S. rulers, after a bloody…


Postal workers rally for new contracts and defense of jobs

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

“My son doesn’t understand why I came to the rally today,” Marsha Outly, a letter carrier in Chicago who retired after 32 years, told the Militant March 23. “I explained that I’m here for the farmers, for the elderly. They…


The road to unify the working class

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

As the capitalist crisis deepens today, workers increasingly confront how can we come together to use the full strength of the working class and our unions to stand up to the employers’ assaults on our wages and working conditions and…


New secret US gov’t files show CIA was used to attack Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
Fidel Castro speaks to workers, peasants preparing to defend their socialist revolution, April 16, 1961. Days later, they defeated U.S.-backed CIA-organized Cuban mercenary invasion at Bay of Pigs. CIA tried to assassinate the Cuban revolutionary leader hundreds of times.

The role of the CIA and FBI under the capitalist system is shown clearly in the activities they carried out documented in thousands of pages filed under the heading of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released March 18…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

April 3, 2000 CHICAGO — The AFL-CIO women’s conference here drew 4,000 women. The conference was stamped by women who are in the middle of union battles. The large turnout registers the deepening resistance of working people to the employers’…



As ceasefire talks continue, Ukrainian workers battle to defend sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire three years into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is driven by Washington’s need to impose stability to protect and advance its own economic and political interests, including normalizing its relations with Moscow. But…



The real reason Florida prisons banned the ‘Militant’

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

The Militant won an important victory in the fight for prisoners’ constitutional rights to follow the news and read papers with the viewpoint they support, as well as the freedom of the press, when the Florida Department of Corrections Literature…


Cleaners at British Airways fight for better pay

Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025

LONDON — “Low pay, no way!” chanted over 30 cleaners and supporters outside the offices of British Airways’ contractor OCS, near Heathrow Airport March 19. The workers, members of the Unite union, were on the third day of a weeklong…