BCTGM flour mill strikers stand strong, win solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Members of BCTGM Local 3G picket at Knappen Milling plant in Augusta, Michigan, April 30. They have been on strike since March 11, fighting for higher wages and safety on the job.

AUGUSTA, Mich. — After two months on strike, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G are standing strong. The 20 workers who make baking flour at Knappen Milling here walked out March 11, fighting for wages…


What’s behind the India-Pakistan war over Kashmir

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Four days of escalating fighting erupted between the rulers of India and Pakistan May 7, threatening full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed powers. Growing out of cross-border shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, drone and air-launched missile strikes soon…


Georgia Teamsters stand firm in strike against 10 Roads Express

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

PALMETTO, Ga. — “We can tell the strike is hurting the company,” Billy Glover, a driver at 10 Roads Express for 24 years and member of Teamsters Local 728, told the Militant April 29. “With the union, work is safer.…


Pathfinder title on Cuba introduced at Bogotá book fair

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It was appropriate that the first copies of Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro, a new book from Pathfinder just off the presses, were released at…


UK refuse workers strike in ninth week, wins support

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — The strike by hundreds of refuse workers here, members of the Unite union, has entered its ninth week and is winning support. Eleven drivers at Perry Barr, one of three refuse depots, who were previously crossing the…


Working-class road to stop imperialism’s wars

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Capitalist rulers across Europe held commemorations celebrating “Victory in Europe” Day last week, marking the end of the second imperialist world war there. At the same time, they’re pushing to crank up their militaries in preparation for more bloody slaughters,…


New Zealand meeting calls for ‘U.S. hands off Cuba!’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
The U.S. is increasing attacks on Cuba, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, said April 27, with new sanctions against countries that request medical aid from Cuba.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, called for support from a gathering of 25 people here April 27 for Cuba’s fight against the “economic strangulation” imposed by the U.S. rulers’ 60-plus-years of economic war…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

May 22, 2000 U.S. Navy warplanes resumed bombing practice on Vieques May 8, in a demonstrative show of force to try to intimidate those who have been fighting to get the U.S. military out of that Puerto Rican island. This…


UK forum: ‘VE Day events are about preparations for war’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

LONDON — “The celebrations of Victory in Europe Day marking the end of the second imperialist world war there, in London, Moscow and elsewhere in the past few days are not about history,” Communist League leader Catharina Tirsén told a…