Corn Nuts strikers stick together, win contract

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 85 celebrate approval of new contract, thank fellow workers who supported their strike. Contract raises wages and improves medical plan.

FRESNO, Calif. — “We’re going back with our heads up high!” strike stalwart Raul Hernandez told the Militant  here after the 40 workers at Corn Nuts — members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 85 — voted…



Strikers demand higher pay at two refineries in France

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

Strikes by members of the Confederation Generale du Travail union (CGT) continue at two refineries owned by Total Energies in France Oct. 24. Workers at the Gonfreville and Feyzin refineries are demanding a 10% pay hike. Their union points to…


Help spread the word about the SWP campaign!

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Deborah Liatos, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress, talks with people at rally of thousands in Los Angeles Oct. 1 protesting death of Mahsa Amini in Iran after arrest by “morality” police.

With elections less than two weeks away, Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are stepping up efforts to reach working people with the party’s program. Campaigners are bringing solidarity to strike picket lines, talking to workers and farmers door…


‘Post-Gazette’ workers strike over medical costs, company attacks

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

PITTSBURGH — Pressmen, typographers, mailers and delivery drivers struck the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Oct. 6. Reporters and other newsroom employees joined them 12 days later.  “We’re striking about our health care,” Keith Wytiaz, a 25-year Post-Gazette  pressman, told the Militant. “The…



1962 ‘Missile’ Crisis: Cuban toilers beat back US threats

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Demonstrations broke out across U.S. and worldwide after Kennedy administration’s announcement of naval blockade against Cuba’s socialist revolution, which took world to brink of nuclear war. Above, protest outside United Nations in New York against threat of Washington invasion of Cuba. Inset, Cuban militia members prepare to defend their revolution arms in hand. Slogan on truck door says, “Standing firm with Fidel.”

Sixty years ago the U.S. rulers pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war in what is widely known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many books have been written presenting Washington’s and Moscow’s point of view on what occurred.…


Books workers need today

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

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Working class taking power is road to meaningful learning

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
After Cuba’s workers and peasants came to power, Che Guevara, center, led in introducing voluntary labor as the socialist revolution deepened. That way, he said, a worker can see himself not as a commodity, but can “understand his full stature as a human being.”

The French edition of Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning Under Capitalism by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It explains how class…