25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

January 12, 1998 The recent actions by immigration authorities seizing hundreds of workers at factories in Georgia for deportations deserve condemnation. These arrests are aimed at dividing working people and intimidating undocumented workers who try to resist the bosses’ attacks…


Nurses strike Sutter Health hospitals over wages, staffing

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. — Registered nurses hit the picket lines Christmas Eve in front of Sutter Health hospitals here and in Berkeley, launching a nine-day strike. The 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association voted to go on strike because the…


New ‘Till’ film misses real story of fight to overturn Jim Crow

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Some 250,000 filed by Emmett Till’s 1955 Chicago funeral, helping fuel fight against Jim Crow nationwide. Till’s mother, Mamie, spent years protesting acquittal of two racists who killed him.

“Till,” 2022, a film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu, starring Danielle Deadwyler. BY ILONA GERSH If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of…


HarperCollins strikers fight for higher wages, union rights

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

NEW YORK — “We’re fighting for higher wages and union security,” Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor and chair of the bargaining unit at HarperCollins, told the Militant. Some 200 workers — hourly employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal…


Counterrevolutionary coup led to US invasion of Grenada

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Fidel Castro said social program of Maurice Bishop, center, who led 1979-83 workers and farmers government in Grenada, “had support of the immense majority.” Counterrevolutionary coup in October 1983 led by Bernard Coard destroyed the revolution, led to US invasion.

To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…


Iran protests: ‘Stop all the executions! Free prisoners!’

Actions feed divisions among capitalist rulers
Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Hundreds gather in Sanandaj, in Kurdish region of Iran, to mark life of Aram Habibi Dec. 26, 40 days after he was killed by regime’s thugs. Mourners chanted, “Down with the dictatorship.”

In the face of more than 100 days of protests across the country by working people and youth, the capitalist government of Iran is suffering from deepening factional divisions over how best to proceed. The outpouring of opposition to the…


Defend Ukraine independence! Demand Moscow troops out now!

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
In mid-November, women protested outside offices of Russian military from St. Petersburg, above, to Ulyanovsk, over the treatment of conscripted relatives. Placard demands investigation of deaths and injuries of those sent to Ukraine front lines from the Belgorod region.

Working people in Ukraine continue to lead the defense of their homeland from deadly bombardment and war moves carried out by the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. They’ve pushed Moscow’s invaders back from over half the territory Russian…


US rail workers discuss fight over crew size, safety, deadly schedules

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

CHICAGO — Even though the country’s 115,000 rail workers have been saddled with a government-imposed contract that unions representing a majority of the workers had voted down, they continue to seek to use their unions to fight for livable schedules,…



SWP: Workers need our own party, a labor party based on our unions

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

Statement by Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, Dec. 28. Recent experiences of millions of working people have driven home the fact that the key division in U.S. politics is not the conflicts between Democrats and…