Women in Cuba joined in deepening the socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Women in Santiago de Cuba protest U.S. Ambassador Earl Smith, right, in July 1957, demand an end to U.S. support for Batista dictatorship. Women joined revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro, and after Jan. 1, 1959, victory they helped lead advance of socialist revolution.

To help mark the anniversary of July 26, 1953, the opening of the Cuban Revolution, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution — From Santiago de…


Build solidarity with strike battles today

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

From longshoremen in the U.S. to rail workers in Canada, hotel workers in Los Angeles to park workers in Minneapolis, flight attendants who’ve gone years without a new contract to independent truckers hit by rising costs, more and more working…


Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Photos taken by Hamas thugs wearing body cams so they could record their atrocities Oct. 7. Left, Joshua Mollel, student agricultural worker from Tanzania, moments before Hamas thugs stab him, stomp on him, then shoot him to death. Right, unidentified Israeli woman being taken hostage. Israelis are fighting to crush Hamas, prevent future pogroms.

While preparing to defend Jews and all Israelis from new attacks threatened by Tehran and its “axis of resistance,” Israeli troops continue to deal blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The destruction of Tehran-backed Hamas’ command structures…


Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…


Oppose US intervention in Venezuela

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the  winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…


Rulers in Tehran threaten to widen Middle East war against Israel, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

The Israeli people are preparing to defend themselves from threatened new assaults from the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah and other groups in the “axis of resistance.” As the Militant goes to press these attacks…



New Labour Party gov’t in UK turns its back on Jews in Israel

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Consistent with the British rulers’ policies over decades, the U.K.’s new Labour government has no intention of defending Jews or Israel’s right to exist. In 1947, above, British rulers ordered brutal military attack on Exodus ship carrying Jewish immigrants seeking refuge in Israel.

LONDON — Fast on the heels of its election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has taken steps to hone its defense of the interests of the U.K.’s capitalist rulers at home and abroad. Within days, Foreign Secretary David…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…


Two Freedom Convoy truckers win acquittal as frame-up case unravels

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

MONTREAL — Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick, participants in the trucker-organized 2022 Freedom Convoy against Ottawa’s job-threatening COVID vaccine mandates, were acquitted by a jury Aug. 2 of frame-up charges of “conspiring” to kill police. The courthouse in Lethbridge, Alberta,…