The working class in the US is destined to take political power

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Petrograd Soviet meets amid 1917 Russian Revolution. Bolshevik Party led by V.I. Lenin went from tiny minority in February to leading workers, peasants to overthrow the czar and take power nine months later.

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…


Fight bipartisan assault on Venezuela, Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to the sovereignty of Venezuela’s working people are a serious danger to all workers. They’re the latest step in a decadeslong drive by both Democratic and Republican administrations to bring down Venezuela’s government. Their goal…


Allegiant pilots rally for contract, win solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Pilots demand new contract Nov. 18 at Pittsburgh airport.

PITTSBURGH — “Members of our union are protesting at 22 airports across the country today,” Will Fierman, a pilot and Teamster Local 2118 media representative, told the Militant at Pittsburgh International Airport Nov. 18. Some 1,400 Allegiant pilots are demanding…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

November 27, 2000 HAVANA — The Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba opened Nov. 10 with more than 4,000 in attendance from 117 countries. Hundreds of organizations are represented, including solidarity organizations, trade unions, peasant organizations and…


Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers at the Safeway bread plant in Richmond, California, members of BCTGM Local 125, rally Oct. 5, part of fight for a new contract with a wage raise. Unionists were victorious.

RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers won wage gains of $4.95 an hour over four years, and the fight…


‘Gazans want to live; not die for Hamas’

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

While Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire to shore up its brutal dictatorship in Gaza, the White House is keeping up pressure on Israel, demanding it refrain from any major attack on the Tehran-backed group whose founding covenant calls for…


Houston convention center unionists win 25% wage hike

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the heels of the victory of the 40-day strike by members of UNITE HERE Local 23 at the Hilton hotel in Houston, some 100 food service workers at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center…


Teamsters hold vigil, demand gov’t action after deadly UPS plane crash

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Nov. 6 vigil at Teamsters Local 89 union hall in Louisville for victims of UPS plane crash two days before. An engine came off 34-year-old cargo plane and it smashed into nearby worksites.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United Parcel Service Flight 2976 crashed almost immediately after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Nov. 4, killing at least 14 people, mostly area workers, injuring many more and destroying or damaging workplaces in the…


Doctors strike Allina over clinic closures, workloads, unpaid work

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS — “Health care is a human right!” and “Doctors on the outside? Trouble on the inside,” were chanted by hundreds of members of the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, during a one-day strike against…


Murderous catastrophe in Darfur as Islamist rebels slaughter thousands

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Thousands of people escape into refugee camp in Tawila, Sudan, Oct. 31. They were fleeing massacre by Rapid Support Forces, formerly Janjaweed militias, in el-Fasher in Darfur region.

As a two-and-a-half-year bloody civil war ravages the toilers in Sudan, the reactionary Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, the largest city in the Darfur region, Oct. 26, unleashing a massacre against the indigenous black population. Two days later, RSF paramilitary…