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…


‘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…


Case workers hold strike rallies in Wisconsin, Iowa

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Striking United Auto Workers Local 180 members at Case New Holland rally in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, Dec. 17 to build support in fight for higher wages, affordable health care.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. — Some 200 United Auto Workers Local 180 members and their supporters rallied in subfreezing weather here Dec. 17 to build support for their strike against the bosses at Case New Holland. The 600 Case workers at…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Ken Evenhuis Ken Evenhuis, a nearly six-decades-long member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died in Los Angeles Dec. 1. He was 77. Ken and his wife, Donna, joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1964, attracted by the SWP…


Capitalist crisis fuels stagflation: prices rise as recession bites

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
South African public workers protest in Pretoria Nov. 22 on “National Day of Action,” demanding 10% wage raise to cover rising prices. Similar actions are taking place worldwide.

With prices continuing to rise alongside growing numbers of layoffs, working people face the beginning of what could be an extended period of “stagflation” — a combination of increased prices and falling capitalist production, trade and jobs. The impact of…


Starbucks workers go on strike, advance fight for a union

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Strikers picketed the Starbucks here Dec. 16-18 as part of a three-day national work stoppage, organized by Starbucks Workers United at some 100 of the company’s shops, demanding union recognition and negotiations for a contract. According…