After working people in Cuba overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and took power, they transformed the country into a sports powerhouse. It leads every nation in the Americas, with the exception of the U.S., in gold…
Working-class families are facing skyrocketing utility bills all across the country as energy monopolies like Con Edison, backed by accommodating government authorities responsible for “regulating” them, are reaping hefty profits. Electricity prices in August surged 31% higher than four years…
MANILA, Philippines — “Women are objectified and commodified. It is a culture that capitalists profit from,” said Virginia Suarez, a lawyer who specializes in women’s and workers’ rights. “When I read this book, I was enriched. Women have to break…
MONTREAL — More than 1,000 people marched in a protest Sept. 27 in Longueuil, just south of Montreal, calling for “Justice for Nooran.” Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old boy whose family are Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by a cop…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Hundreds of striking refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, and other trade unionists marched through the city center and rallied here Sept. 20. The demonstration marked the six-month anniversary of the start of their strike against…
“One of the Holocaust’s worst single atrocities — the murder of 33,771 Jews over two days in September 1941, the start of the ‘Holocaust by Bullets,’” said a press release issued by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center at simultaneous…
PLAINFIELD, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, inset, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, spoke to some 400 people at a candidates town hall at the Shiloh Baptist Church here Sept. 25. The event was organized by the National…
MANILA, Philippines — Tens of thousands of Filipinos demonstrated here and in other cities across the archipelago Sept. 21 over the embezzlement of billions of pesos allocated for desperately needed flood control projects. Protests had been building for weeks over…
Our Power Is That of the Working People: Building Socialism in Cuba, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It is a collection of historic speeches by Fidel Castro, central leader of the Cuban Revolution. The excerpt…
Clarity on the questions posed by Tyler Robinson’s killing of Trump supporter Charlie Kirk are critical for the working class. The article in last week’s Militant, “‘Woke’ left hails violent attacks to shut political opponents down” by Terry Evans, was…
