Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Tehran July 19, in the shadow of Moscow’s war on Ukraine. All three powers at the summit clash with Washington, but each has its…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — “I’m not going to get my hopes up, but negotiations are scheduled to resume the week of Aug. 14,” United Auto Workers Local 807 President Nick Guernsey told the Militant by phone July 24. More than 1,000…
MONTREAL — Montreal Casino strikers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3939, are into their third month on strike for pay raises large enough to counter the impact of soaring inflation and for safer working conditions. They told…
NEW ORLEANS — The National Federation of the Blind held its annual convention here July 5-10. The NFB is the largest organization of the blind and those with low vision in the U.S. and its national conventions are the largest…
MANCHESTER, England — Bus drivers working for Arriva North West in Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and across Lancashire went on strike July 20 to fight to protect their wages from being driven down by double-digit inflation. The strikers are members of…
A Miami jury found Argentine naval officer Roberto Guillermo Bravo liable July 1 for his role in what has become known as the Trelew Massacre, in a civil case brought by relatives of four of 19 political prisoners who were…
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Socialist Workers Party in Philadelphia completed a statewide campaigning effort to get out the party’s program and win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Campaigners collected 2,422 signatures,…
From Lenin to Stalin by Victor Serge is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Serge was a participant as history was made by the Russian Revolution and the Communist International. This excerpt is from his account of…
Sixty-nine years ago on July 26, Fidel Castro and 160 fellow revolutionaries carried out armed attacks on the Fulgencio Batista regime’s Moncada garrison in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrison in Bayamo, launching the war that…
The labor movement should join rail workers in fighting President Joseph Biden’s intervention in contract talks between rail bosses and unions aimed at preventing the workers from using their union power, after they voted by 99% to strike against industry-wide…
