Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’

Protests call for freedom for Israeli hostages, end to war
Vol. 89/No. 13 - April 7, 2025
“Out, out, out, Hamas out!” angry Palestinian demonstrators in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, chanted for second day March 26. Protests spread elsewhere across the war-torn enclave with thousands marching to oppose Hamas’ rule, hold them responsible for deaths, destruction.

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest protests there in years, signaling a renewed struggle by the toilers for their own…


‘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’…


UK refuse workers strike wins support

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — Some 400 refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are on strike here at three City Council-run depots. Pickets walk slowly in front of refuse trucks as they leave the depots, slowing down the bosses’ strikebreaking efforts.…


United flight attendants rally across US for new contract

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025
United flight attendants rally across US for new contract

NEWARK, N.J. — Some 75 United Airlines flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and their supporters joined a spirited action at Newark Liberty International Airport here March 19. It was part of nearly 20 actions at airports…


NY US-Cuba conference says, ‘End Washington’s embargo!’

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025
“The U.S. does a lot of damage, but it will never achieve its main objective of bringing Cuba to its knees,” Cuban diplomat Yuri Gala López told New York conference March 15.

NEW YORK — More than 100 people from the U.S. and Canada participated in a two-day conference here March 15-16 to discuss what faces the Cuban people today and plan activities to press Washington to end its more than 65-year…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025

March 27, 2000 At the Barakova Mine in Ukraine, 81 miners were killed March 11 in one of the republic’s deadliest mining disasters. In addition to those killed, four escaped and several more were injured. Some 200 others escaped other…