Ukraine bosses, gov’t attack health workers, care

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Nurses and other health care workers in Ukraine haven’t been paid for months as the capitalist rulers there press their attacks on the wages and job security of the working class in the midst of Moscow’s invasion. The government is…


Ohio workers at GM battery plant vote 710-16 to join UAW

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Workers at an electric vehicle battery factory near Warren, Ohio, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers. The 710-16 vote, announced by the National Labor Relations Board Dec. 9, marks the first time workers have won union representation in…


Thousands protest inflation, corruption in Mongolia

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

For more than a week thousands of demonstrators, most of them young, have braved subzero temperatures to protest corruption in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The demonstrations began Dec. 4 as prices for necessities have soared. This included a 40%…


Iran protests for rights, against executions stoke gov’t divisions

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

More than three months of daily protests are widening rifts between rival factions among Iran’s capitalist rulers. The execution of two protesters, death sentences for 11 others and charges that carry the death penalty against six more have expanded demonstrations…


South Korea truckers end 16-day-long strike

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Thousands of South Korean owner-operators went on strike.

Striking South Korean owner-operator truck drivers, members of the Korean Federation of Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union, Truckers Solidarity Division, voted Dec. 9 to end their 16-day walkout. Thousands of truckers had gone on strike Nov. 24, seeking financial…


University of California teaching assistants strike for over a month

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES — As the strike of University of California workers reached its 31st day, hundreds of striking academic workers rallied at the U.C. campus here Dec. 14. They were joined by supporters, including faculty, students and members of UNITE…


‘Cuba’s revolution grew in extraordinary school of experience’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Che Guevara, left, with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1962. They led workers and peasants to take political power in 1959, and use it to make a socialist revolution. The Cuban Revolution “discovered Marxism by its own methods,” Guevara said, “in living contact with the people.”

Che Guevara Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Ernesto Che Guevara was an Argentine-born revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and his Rebel Army, becoming an outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution. They…


Holiday greetings to workers behind bars

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

New Year greetings to our readers behind bars! The Militant will continue to tell the truth about the conditions you face and keep getting news about the struggles of working people worldwide into your hands. 2022 was quite a year!…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

January 12, 1998 BOSTON — A meeting here Dec. 10 kicked off a year of activity in solidarity with the struggle of the Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony in the Caribbean, one of the last official…