HAVANA — I had been here two days in late April as part of an international team of volunteers, helping set up the Pathfinder Books stand at the Havana International Book Fair, when I developed COVID-19 symptoms. Had I been…
Public anger exploded in Sri Lanka May 9 after several hundred supporters of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, many armed with iron bars, attacked peaceful protesters camped out in Colombo, the country’s capital. Police did little to stop the attack that…
FAIRFIELD, Texas — Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for governor of Texas, party member Dennis Richter and the author of this article met Nathaniel Turner on a recent campaign trip here. We were eating lunch in a local diner where he…
For the last two years, car caravans and protests calling for an end to the U.S. economic war on Cuba have taken place on the last Sunday of every month across the United States and around the world. For more…
Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…
Ukrainian prosecutors rushed to put 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin on trial May 13, charging him with having committed “war crimes.” This is the first of what authorities there say will be hundreds of such prosecutions. If convicted Shysimarin faces…
Workers and their unions in Ukraine are joining in the fight to defeat Moscow’s invasion of their country, while standing up to assaults on jobs, wages and working conditions by bosses who are backed by the government of President Volodymyr…
MINNEAPOLIS — The Socialist Workers Party in Minnesota is organizing a concentrated two-week effort to get the party’s gubernatorial ticket on the ballot while taking its working-class program across the state. “We’re asking supporters from around the country to come…
Ricardo Alarcón, a decadeslong central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, died in Havana April 30. He was 84 years old. Born in 1937, Alarcón was a leader of the July 26 Movement at the University of Havana during the struggle…
“When Ukraine is free, Tatars will be free. Of course, the struggle for our national rights will continue, but nothing like what we face under Russian occupation,” Melek Maksudoglu recently told the Militant. She got to know the paper in…
