Too Many Babies?

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

A woman’s private decision to decide when and how many children to have is being twisted by many liberal and middle-class radicals today who are hysterical about imminent climate change disaster and the bleakness of life they perceive. This has…


Bolshevik Revolution advanced the fight for women’s equality

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Literacy class for women factory workers in Moscow. After Russian Revolution in 1917, Soviet government led by V.I. Lenin aided women in making giant steps forward. This included 1919 literacy drive, fight for equal rights, state guarantee of child care, decriminalized abortion.

One of the central tasks taken on by the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was to organize determined steps toward women’s equality and ability to participate fully in society as part of advancing the revolution. Below…


Workers vote to end strike at Kellogg’s, go back stronger

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Some 1,400 cereal workers, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, voted to end their 2 1/2 month strike against Kellogg’s, the union announced Dec. 21. The key issue in the battle…


‘Militant has news workers need to fight effectively’

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
SWP member Josefina Otero, left, talks to Marrie Martinez and Arianna Ortiz at Martinez’s house in Dallas Dec. 3. Martinez renewed, saying she likes the Militant’s strike coverage.

Socialist Workers Party members and other readers of the Militant newspaper have been getting back to the paper’s hundreds of new subscribers, visiting them on strike picket lines and at their homes, meeting in coffee shops and staying in touch…


Concrete truckers strike has impact on Seattle construction

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

SEATTLE — Thirty-four concrete truck drivers organized by Teamster Local 174 at Gary Merlino Construction got the ball rolling Nov. 19 when they said “No” to the company’s “last, best and final” offer of wages below prevailing construction levels. Truckers…


Ukraine coal miners sit in over gov’t refusal to pay back wages

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Members of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine stopped work at the Chervonogradska mine in the Lviv region Dec. 7 to protest the government’s refusal to pay their back wages. The 42 miners on the first shift sat…


Warehouse workers in Australia win contract fights

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

SYDNEY — Some 1,000 warehouse workers organized by the United Workers Union at seven Toll distribution centers across Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales won a new contract Nov. 17, two days after going out on an indefinite strike.…


Moscow threatens sovereignty of Ukraine, sends troops to border

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Map shows Crimean Peninsula, which Putin regime annexed in 2014, and part of eastern Ukraine in Donbas region that Moscow-backed separatists seized, imposing brutal regime.

The recent buildup of Russian forces along the border with Ukraine threatens that country’s sovereignty. Moscow seeks to reverse the Ukrainian rulers’ moves toward closer relations with imperialist governments in Europe and the U.S. and to advance its long-term goal…


Socialist revolution will accelerate liberation of art and culture

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
From left, Mexican artist Diego Rivera, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and surrealist Andre Breton collaborating on “Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art” in Mexico in 1938. It called for freedom from censorship, capitalist or Stalinist alike, and artistic independence.

Art and Revolution: Writings on Literature, Politics, and Culture by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Trotsky was a central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the early Communist International. After…


Holiday greetings to all fellow workers behind bars!

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Holiday greetings to our readers and all those held behind prison bars! We greet you as fellow workers, members of the only class capable of putting an end to the exploitation and oppression inherent in the capitalist system. All working-class…