The international drive to expand the long-term readership of the Militant has been a resounding success, exceeding the international goal with 385 renewal subscriptions being sold during the course of the six-week drive. This response shows the growing interest in…
Thousands of teachers, joined by contingents of firefighters, fellow unionists and others, marched to the governor’s mansion in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico Feb. 9 to demand higher wages and oppose cuts in pensions. Protesters also denounced a U.S.-imposed…
ATHENS, Greece — Publishing house Diethnes Vima organized a discussion on “Che Guevara’s contributions to socialism in Cuba and proletarian internationalism worldwide” as a celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution here Jan. 22. Two books were presented —…
Bernard Bates, a longtime leader in the fight of Black farmers to keep their land, died Jan. 18 in Hays, Kansas. He was 85. He and his wife Ava farmed in Nicodemus, one of a dozen Black farming communities in…
NEW YORK — Well over two dozen “Day Without Immigrants” actions took place coast to coast Feb. 14, many demanding amnesty for the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without government-recognized papers. The initial call for the actions was made…
Thousands of teachers, many of them women, held protests and strikes across Iran Jan. 31 — including outside the parliament in Tehran — calling for higher pay and pensions and opposing increasing moves to charge for public education. The semiofficial…
SCUNTHORPE, England — “Support has been great, from all over the U.K. and Ireland,” Unite union steward Dave Birchall told the Militant outside the British Steel plant that dominates this town Jan. 28. He is one of 60 striking scaffolders…
LONDON — In a bloody assault against the struggle for civil rights and Irish independence, the British Army’s paratroop regiment on Jan. 30, 1972, gunned down protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen were killed and many more injured. Fifty years…
The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon, a founding leader of the SWP, was framed up in 1941 and imprisoned…
