Los Angeles meeting marks Cuba’s solidarity with Africa

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Discussion at Los Angeles meeting on Cuba and Africa Dec. 12. “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries,” Alejandro García said by video from the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. This shows “the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa.”

LOS ANGELES — “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries, just one example of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa,” Alejandro García, of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., told a meeting here Dec.…


Solidarity crucial to outcome of labor fights

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

Workers are showing growing confidence today in using our unions to fight against the attacks of the bosses and their government. This is an advance for all working people, including workers yet to be organized, farmers and all those oppressed…


Scientists protest California ‘anti-racist’ math plan

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

A national “open letter” signed by 1,470 math and science teachers and professors as of Dec. 19 protests the gutting of math education under the guise of fighting racism. The letter states, “We write to express our alarm over recent…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

January 6, 1997 For an entire month, daily protests against the Stalinist regime of Slobodan Milosevic have filled the streets of Yugoslavia. The number of demonstrators in the capital of Serbia has hovered around 100,000. On December 16 up to…


Join ‘Militant’ renewal drive, help expand paper’s reach

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
SWP member Leroy Watson, left, talking with Dwayne Houston in Bellwood, Illinois, about the Kelloggs’s strike, im-portance of workers’ struggles. “I support the unions,” Houston said.

Socialist Workers Party members and other readers of the Militant  are not waiting for the Jan. 1 start of the international campaign to win renewals to the working-class paper and to get back in touch with new subscribers. A team…


Pathfinder books move at Montreal, Manila book fairs

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Recent book fairs in Montreal and Manila show growing interest among working people in literature addressing key political questions they face as a result of deepening worldwide economic and social crises, growing capitalist competition and war threats, and rising struggles…



Cuban Revolution set example in fight for women’s emancipation

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Young girls from peasant families graduate from Ana Betancourt School in Havana, 1961. They learned to read and write, sew, and gained pride in themselves. Fidel Castro called for a mass literacy campaign, transforming the lives of the Cuban people, deeply impacting women.

For those around the world who want to unite working people to advance our class interests and to end the second-class status of women, there is much to learn from the experience of Cuba’s socialist revolution. From the very beginning,…



Quebec forum discusses Burkina Faso Revolution, Thomas Sankara

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Volunteers at Pathfinder stall at Montreal Book Fair helped build Nov. 27 forum on Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87. Inset, Michel Prairie, editor of book, speaking on Burkinabé revolution.

MONTREAL — Thomas Sankara was the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in the West African country of Burkina Faso, Michel Prairie, the editor of Thomas Sankara Speaks and a leader of the Communist League, told 25 people at a…