In a high-profile escalation of Washington’s campaign against intellectual property theft by the rulers in Beijing, FBI agents arrested professor Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, Jan. 28. He was charged with lying to…
Below are excerpts from one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February, Cuba & Angola: The War for Freedom by Harry Villegas, known the world over as “Pombo.” This was the nom de guerre given him by Ernesto Che…
As part of strengthening the self-confidence, fighting capacities and class consciousness of working people, Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, explain why the fight for workers control of production is a key…
February 20, 1995 Nearly 50 years ago Washington ushered in the horror of nuclear warfare with the slaughter of some 200,000 men, women and children in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The Japanese were ready to surrender and…
The Donald Trump administration’s long-anticipated plan to achieve a negotiated settlement in the Middle East calls on Palestinian groups to recognize Israel and for the Israeli government to recognize a Palestinian state. President Trump announced the plan, which he says…
“I’ve watched a lot of State of the Union speeches by both Democratic and Republican presidents,” Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, told the Militant from Dallas Feb. 5. “No matter what party is in office, they try…
President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 4 as a reelection rally, boasting “jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and…
Cuba’s Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) has invited workers, farmers and young people around the world to come and join the 15th May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, set for April 26 to…
Copper miners on strike in Arizona and Texas continue to staff the picket lines 24/7 and reach out for support against the union-busting attack of Asarco’s bosses. “We are continuing Sunday dinners at the Mission picket line and Friday dinner…
SEATTLE — Some 8,000 workers represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and other unions went on strike against the Swedish-Providence hospital system Jan. 28-30. Picket lines were set up 24 hours a day at seven facilities in the greater Seattle area.…
