4,000 hotel and restaurant workers on strike in Norway

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

OSLO, Norway — Striking workers in the hotel and restaurant industry mobilized for the May Day march here. They are part of an expanding nationwide walkout by over 4,000 members of the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions and the…


Defend Cuba from stepped up attacks by Washington

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

“Cuba is fully entitled to trade for fuel with any country, without restrictions, conditions, or questioning that contravene freedom of international trade,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said April 14. Rodríguez condemned the U.S. rulers’ economic strangulation of Cuba, intensified…



As immigration soars in EU, rulers seek to exploit new labor

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

The number of immigrants living in the European Union hit a total of more than 64 million in 2025, a record high, as millions of working people seek a better life in the face of the wars and social disasters…


Militant Fighting Fund indispensable for putting paper out

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

With $111,741 collected toward the annual Militant Fighting Fund, supporters of the fund are stepping up efforts to take the $165,000 goal over the top in the remaining two weeks of the campaign.  The Militant  accepts no paid advertising and…


Pathfinder booth at Bogotá book fair draws attention

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Pathfinder booth at Bogotá book fair draws attention

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A Pathfinder Press booth was set up here at the Bogotá International Book Fair, one of the largest in Latin America, being held April 21-May 4. Last year’s book fair drew some 570,000 visitors.  Popular titles in…


Nuns defend hospice against ‘woke’ NY gov’t legal attack

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

Catholic nuns at the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, run Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed hospice care facility for the poor there. On April 6 they filed a lawsuit because New York state officials are violating their constitutional rights. …


Despite Tehran’s repression, protests are beginning again

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Workers at health center in Yazd province of Iran April 25 protest over working conditions, wages. Since U.S. rulers began war, a million have been laid off and prices have skyrocketed.

Tehran is continuing to arrest union activists and impose its strict internet shutdown, in a doomed attempt to prevent working people and oppressed nationalities from organizing to defend their interests amid the lull in the war. Opponents of the reactionary…


Free Narges Mohammadi, all political prisoners in Iran!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

NEW YORK — Narges Mohammadi has spent more than a decade in Iran’s prisons, Karin Deutsch Karlekar told a meeting at the Rizzoli Bookstore here April 22. Karlekar is the director of Writers at Risk at PEN America and co-chair…


Unite the working class! Amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
UNITE HERE contingent at Chicago May Day rally of 400,000 in 2006, part of nationwide political strike of millions demanding amnesty for immigrants to unite the working class.

The labor movement needs to take up a crucial challenge today — to champion and help lead a fight for the 11 million workers in the U.S. without “proper papers.” This is central to prevent deportations and overcome divisions the…