25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

January 27, 1997 January 15 was the biggest day yet as protest strikes in south Korea entered their fourth week. Union officials say 630,000 workers participated in the strike that day, and tens of thousands flooded the streets of Seoul…


St. Vincent nurses score victory in 10-month strike

Win better conditions for workers and patients
Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

WORCESTER, Mass. —Nurses organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at St. Vincent Hospital struck the Tenet-owned facility here for 10 months. On Jan. 3 they voted 487-9 to ratify a contract that provides for a limit of four patient assignments…


To fight effects of rising prices, fight for cost of living protection

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

Rising prices — especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities — are wreaking havoc with the lives of millions of working people. Strikes and other struggles by workers and their unions today for wage raises include demands for cost-of-living…


‘I think every job should have a union. It’s what we need’

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022
“I didn’t realize what was going on with the unions until I met the Militant,” Derrick McCrary, a retired FedEx diesel mechanic, told Susan LaMont as he renewed his subscription in Atlanta.

“I didn’t realize what was going on with the unions until I met the Militant,” Derrick McCrary told Susan LaMont Jan. 8 outside his home in west Atlanta. “I was surprised to read about the strike at Kellogg’s. Always thought…



Moscow, Beijing, Washington frame opponents as ‘foreign agents’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

As they deepen their assaults on working people and political rights, the regimes in Moscow and Beijing are trying to silence political opponents by smearing them as “foreign agents.” Washington condemns these two rivals for repression, but has used the…


‘Culture enables man to be more complete, revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Che Guevara at the time of victorious battle of Santa Clara, which sealed the defeat of U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Harry Villegas is at right, Aleida March is second from left. Che played a leading role in everything from literacy classes for Rebel Army combatants in the mountains to theater and ballet for the soldiers under his command in La Cabaña fortress in early 1959.

Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces  by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt below is from an interview…



Fidel Castro: Cuba shows revolution needs Marxist leadership to win

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…