On May 17, National Farmers’ Day in Cuba, working people across the island marked the anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform. It was carried through 67 years ago by the workers and farmers government that had taken power five months…
Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June features Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock. Much of what is known about this decadeslong political disruption program is the result of evidence forced into the light through…
Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…
July 9, 2001 The Cuban government condemned the convictions in a U.S. court of five Cuban citizens on espionage and murder charges. The five, the statement says, were part of an operation to “discover and report on terrorist plans hatched…
THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…
Joanne Holowchak Joanne Holowchak, a long-time member and supporter of the Communist League in Canada, died June 14 in London, Ontario. She had waged a courageous battle against dementia for the last 10 years, and was lovingly cared for by…
In a significant victory for the constitutional right of workers behind bars to read material of their choosing and of the Militant to reach its inmate subscribers, Florida prison authorities after months of dispute overturned bans on three issues of…
SAN FRANCISCO — After six months of negotiations without reaching an acceptable contract, food and other concession workers at the San Francisco airport picketed outside the international terminal here June 18. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, are…
“The Great American Job-Creation Machine Comes Back to Life,” headlined an enthusiastic June 6 Wall Street Journal article, hailing the Labor Department’s claim 172,000 jobs were “created” in May. But a closer look at the facts shows this claim is…
Violent assaults targeting Jews in the U.S. and worldwide are sharply expanding, shattering illusions that the Jewish people will be protected from abuse and attack by Washington and other “democratic” imperialist powers. These assaults go side by side with the…
