Juan Almeida: Exemplary leader in Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

HAVANA — The life of Juan Almeida Bosque, a central leader of the Cuban Revolution for more than five decades, was highlighted at two events during the recent Havana International Book Fair here. They showed the revolutionary integrity, courage, discipline,…


Quebec public workers vote new contracts up

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

MONTREAL — Common Front Quebec union federations representing 420,000 public sector employees, including hospital, education workers and teachers, announced Feb. 23 that union members had voted by 75% to accept a new contract with a wage increase of 17.4% over…




Grocery workers in California launch fight for equal pay

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
United Food and Commercial Workers union members at Food 4 Less grocery in Baldwin Park, California, and their supporters rally March 7 in fight for pay raise, safe working conditions

BALDWIN PARK, Calif. — “We’re here fighting for a better wage and for equity with our brothers and sisters at other groceries,” Irma Vega, who has worked for Food 4 Less grocery for 24 years, told the Militant  March 7.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

April 5, 1999 NEW YORK CITY — The daily demonstrations here against the police killing of Amadou Diallo have provoked a crisis for the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Tens of thousands of working people have taken part. Picket lines…



Hamas’ goal is ‘Final Solution,’ carried out to the end

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…


Cuba’s Association of the Blind prepares for national assembly

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
María Victoria Viltres, physical therapist who has retinis pigmentosa, working in rehab center in Buey Arriba municipality on the edge of the Sierra Maestra mountains, October 2016.

HAVANA — The Havana International Book Fair is not just an event to display and promote literature and the arts. It’s also a place where you meet ordinary Cuban working people defending the conquests of their socialist revolution. A good…


Thomas Sankara: ‘Revolution, women’s liberation go together’

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Thomas Sankara, leader of 1983-87 popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, giving “The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women” speech, March 8, 1987.

To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…