MARTINEZ, Calif. — For over two months, 120 oil refinery workers at Marathon Renewables here, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, have been fighting serious attacks on their union and working conditions. In the latest blow, the company locked out…
Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…
CHICAGO — Opponents of Washington’s deepening attacks against Cuba got a tremendous response from thousands of people lining the route of the annual Puerto Rican People’s Parade here June 13. Two dozen people took part in a special Cuba solidarity…
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…
