Workers, youth call new strikes, protests in Iran

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Thousands of Iranian students, shopkeepers and workers heeded the call for protests Nov. 15-17 against the reactionary capitalist regime’s trampling on democratic rights. “The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions once again honors the memory of the young people,…



Puerto Rico Cuba solidarity group pushes back against FBI harassment

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Milagros Rivera, left, president of Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, joined Oct. 29 protest in New York against U.S. rulers’ financial, trade and economic war against Cuba.

NEW YORK — “They haven’t been able to break Cuba, so they have to criminalize solidarity,” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, said in an Oct. 28 interview at the Militant office here. She was…


Statue to honor Korean women forced into brothels by Tokyo

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Kim Bok-dong in April 2014 touches Statue of Peace, a memorial to victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, at City Hall Plaza in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do Province, in South Korea.

PHILADELPHIA — Some 30 people came to see a movie on the life of Kim Bok-dong, a Korean “comfort woman” and human rights activist, Oct. 30. They also discussed the decision of the Philadelphia Art Commission to approve the installation…


Ukraine pushes Moscow out of Kherson, defends nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

The Ukrainian people inflicted another significant defeat onto Moscow’s attempt to conquer their country. Kyiv’s troops swept into Kherson Nov. 11, the only regional capital Moscow had taken since the war began, after the regime of President Vladimir Putin ordered…


UK women’s conference takes up fight for equality, rights

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

CARDIFF, Wales — Some 1,700 people joined discussion about how to advance the fight for women’s equality at the conference of FiLiA here Oct. 22-24. FiLiA, which describes itself as part of the women’s liberation movement, means daughter. Support for…



Lessons of Cuban ‘missile’ crisis: ‘Unity of Cuban people’

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

MONTREAL — Forty people joined in a meeting here Oct. 29 to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1962 Cuba “missile” crisis and to discuss two books, October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen From Cuba and Making History: Interviews…


First Pathfinder e-books for blind readers are available

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

The first six electronic books from Pathfinder Press fully accessible for readers who are blind or have low vision are now available from Bookshare.org. Pathfinder publishes books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and others that present a revolutionary working-class road…


Donate your California gas-tax rebate to the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

Workers are being hard hit by soaring prices for food, gas, rents, medical expenses and more. The Militant newspaper — which fighting workers and trade unionists depend on for clarity on politics and as a guide to action — is…