In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in Germany where he is being treated for prostate cancer. Sansal’s release by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
Rising prices for basic necessities, from groceries to electricity and health care, and now growing layoffs, are making it increasingly difficult for working people to make ends meet. This crisis has grown whether the bosses’ Democratic or Republican parties are…
A victory won by the Socialist Workers Party in a political rights lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections in 1979 became a central focus of the discussion at an Oct. 8 U.S. Supreme Court hearing. At issue was…
WASHINGTON — Supporters of Kilmar Abrego García will rally in his defense Nov. 20 outside a U.S. District Court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, protesting the Donald Trump administration’s latest move to immediately deport him to Liberia. CASA, an area immigrant…
MIAMI — A car caravan and press conference here Nov. 15 demanded the extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, as well as those from Venezuela and 15 other countries. Cubans in the U.S. had also been protected under a…
ANTHONY, Minn. — At the Starbucks workers’ picket line here Nov. 14, picket captain Abby Haland told the Militant, “Starbucks jobs aren’t livable without winning a contract. Low wages and lack of benefits mean many of us work two jobs…
“Our pay slip is a mark of slavery,” several hundred temporary workers from the Fajr Jam gas refinery in Bushehr province in southern Iran chanted during a work stoppage and march Nov. 10. “Enough with promises, our table is empty.”…
MONTREAL — A Nov. 5 meeting organized by Students Supporting Israel at Toronto Metropolitan University was violently attacked by masked supporters of the Jew-hating outfit Students for Justice in Palestine. The meeting was called to hear two Israeli soldiers speak…
Along with the slaughter of 1,200 Jews and others and the rape and mutilation of dozens of women, a central part of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom was the kidnapping of 251 hostages, forcing them into captivity in Gaza. But…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is Speeches to the Party: The Revolutionary Perspective and the Revolutionary Party by James P. Cannon, who was the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The book covers the prospects…
