Cuba’s internationalist volunteers product of socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
Cuban medical brigade at Ebebiyin hospital, Equatorial Guinea, July 28, 2008, with Guinean students, third and fourth from left, is example of internationalism of Cuba’s workers, farmers.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

July 28, 1997 UNITED NATIONS — “We have come to denounce the colonial and imperialistic policies that the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico for the last 99 years,” said Raquel Rivera June 19 at the UN Special Committee…


Lessons from past union battles point road forward

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

Miners forced on strike for over a year at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama, and other workers across North America, are standing up to the employers’ assault on our wages, and fighting for schedules that allow for a family life…



SWP builds support for rail union fights, seeks ballot in Philadelphia

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
SWP U.S. Senate candidate Osborne Hart, right, talks with James Shabazz in Philadelphia June 24 at start of campaign to get 2,000 signatures to place Chris Hoeppner on ballot for Congress.

Socialist Workers Party members are discussing the roots of the capitalist crises working people face today and what we can do together to defend ourselves. As they present the party’s program widely among workers and farmers they’re getting a good…



CN Rail signal workers strike ends, dispute goes to arbitration

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

MONTREAL — After a lively two-week strike, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers officials decided July 5 to send the fight by some 750 Canadian National Railway signal and communications workers for higher wages and important changes in scheduling to binding…


Protests mark 5th anniversary of Grenfell Tower fire

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

LONDON – Commemorations and protests across this city marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire of June 14, 2017. Seventy-two people were killed in that blaze and 70 others injured, in a building wrapped in highly flammable…


Protests by Karakalpaks erupt in Uzbekistan

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

The authoritarian government of Uzbekistan in Central Asia — an “ally and important partner” of Moscow — was forced to back off efforts to strip autonomous status from Karakalpakstan after mass protests broke out there July 1-2. The region has…


Mass protests ‘won something for all Ecuadorians’

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

Indigenous groups in Ecuador announced June 30 gains made after two-and-a-half weeks of daily protests and highway blockades, fighting for measures to protect workers and farmers from the ravages of inflation and other effects of today’s capitalist economic and social…