Militant Fighting Fund indispensable for putting paper out

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

With $111,741 collected toward the annual Militant Fighting Fund, supporters of the fund are stepping up efforts to take the $165,000 goal over the top in the remaining two weeks of the campaign.  The Militant  accepts no paid advertising and…


Pathfinder booth at Bogotá book fair draws attention

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Pathfinder booth at Bogotá book fair draws attention

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A Pathfinder Press booth was set up here at the Bogotá International Book Fair, one of the largest in Latin America, being held April 21-May 4. Last year’s book fair drew some 570,000 visitors.  Popular titles in…


Nuns defend hospice against ‘woke’ NY gov’t legal attack

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

Catholic nuns at the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, run Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed hospice care facility for the poor there. On April 6 they filed a lawsuit because New York state officials are violating their constitutional rights. …


Despite Tehran’s repression, protests are beginning again

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Workers at health center in Yazd province of Iran April 25 protest over working conditions, wages. Since U.S. rulers began war, a million have been laid off and prices have skyrocketed.

Tehran is continuing to arrest union activists and impose its strict internet shutdown, in a doomed attempt to prevent working people and oppressed nationalities from organizing to defend their interests amid the lull in the war. Opponents of the reactionary…


Free Narges Mohammadi, all political prisoners in Iran!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

NEW YORK — Narges Mohammadi has spent more than a decade in Iran’s prisons, Karin Deutsch Karlekar told a meeting at the Rizzoli Bookstore here April 22. Karlekar is the director of Writers at Risk at PEN America and co-chair…


Unite the working class! Amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
UNITE HERE contingent at Chicago May Day rally of 400,000 in 2006, part of nationwide political strike of millions demanding amnesty for immigrants to unite the working class.

The labor movement needs to take up a crucial challenge today — to champion and help lead a fight for the 11 million workers in the U.S. without “proper papers.” This is central to prevent deportations and overcome divisions the…



US troops, ships, warplanes out of the Middle East now!

Washington seeks plunder, markets and labor to exploit
Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
U.S. forces board, seize tanker M/T Tifani in Indian Ocean April 21. Washington says ship was carrying sanctioned Iranian oil, extending its blockade on shipping by the regime in Tehran.

President Donald Trump announced an indefinite extension of the U.S. ceasefire with Tehran April 21, but said the U.S. blockade of ships to and from Iranian ports will continue. Washington’s war violates Iran’s sovereignty and is aimed at strengthening U.S.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

April 30, 2001 NEW YORK — In a festive atmosphere, close to 200 people jammed a public meeting here April 14 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Cuba’s victory at the Bay of Pigs over a U.S.-organized invasion. It was…


Back NIPSCO, BP workers in fights against boss lockouts

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
Faced with BP bosses’ union-busting lockout, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 members at Whiting refinery in Indiana picket, win support in fight for job safety, more union staffing.

WHITING, Ind. — Bitter boss lockouts of workers at both the British Petroleum oil refinery here and the Northern Indiana Public Services Company across the northern part of the state continue. United Steelworkers Local 7-1 leaders say the main concerns…