Understanding History: Marxist Essays by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. The excerpt is from the article “From Lenin to Castro: The role of the individual in history making.” In it Novack deals with…
As Washington’s blockade of the Cuban people intensifies, members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are campaigning to get out the truth about, and defend, Cuba’s socialist revolution. They’re organizing public…
As part of celebrations in Cuba and worldwide marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the Militant is printing excerpts over the coming year from the speeches and writings of the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution.…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals at hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii entered its fourth week Feb. 16. Spirited strike lines of nurses and…
The shopping list is radioed, as it is every morning. Today it’s for oatmeal cookies, smoked bacon, mayonnaise, vegetables and fruit, coffee, bread, some sandwiches. “Copy that,” the supply chief replies. The “customers” are Ukrainian soldiers in front-line trenches, ordering…
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in South Minneapolis Feb. 16 for a march and rally sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border control agencies’ ongoing arrests and brutality here. Speakers urged people to keep…
February 26, 2001 The entire labor movement has a stake in supporting efforts by the coal miners to defend and extend black lung benefits. It is part of the fight for human dignity, the right to a safe workplace, and…
Over 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, voted by almost 99% Feb. 4 to authorize a strike, but a strike deadline has not been set. They are fed up…
FEB. 25 — The Cuban government announced this afternoon that a speedboat registered in Florida approached their coast near Corralillo, in Villa Clara province. When a Cuban border guard boat approached to ask for identification, those on the U.S. boat…
Prison authorities at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida, have now impounded three consecutive issues of the Militant, dated Feb. 2, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16. They object to three lead articles in each issue, which report on the…
