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‘Militant’ Renewal Drive June 25-August 2 (final chart)

Rail workers protest for jobs, pay, right to strike

Unions organize rally in Illinois, more planned

GALESBURG, Ill. — More than 150 railroad workers, family members and their supporters joined in the “Galesburg Rally for Rail Labor” here July 30, one of a series of protests being organized by rail workers across the Midwest as part…

1969 ‘Cordobazo’ in Argentina posed working class taking power

This special feature is from The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America by Joseph Hansen, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, cited in last week’s article, “Argentine military officer found guilty for…

Support Ukraine independence! Russian troops get out now!

It is now more than five months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops storming into Ukraine to overthrow the elected government, seize the country and obliterate Ukraine as a nation. Ukrainian forces have resisted courageously…

Nat’l Federation of Blind traces its aims, history, fight for rights

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…

UK bus drivers strike to protect their wages from inflation

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…

Argentine military officer found guilty for 1972 Trelew massacre

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…

Socialist Workers Party files for 2022 ballot in Pennsylvania

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,…

‘Everything has changed,’ Stalin destroyed the Russian Revolution

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…

Celebrate Cuba’s socialist revolution!

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…