Philadelphia flight attendants picket PSA as negotiations stall

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

PHILADELPHIA — “What do we want? A contract! When do we want it? Now!” chanted some 35 flight attendants and their supporters at the airport here Aug. 18. Similar protests took place at PSA Airlines hubs at four other airports…


Flight attendants rally at DC, Charlotte, Dallas airports

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Association of Flight Attendants union members at PSA Airlines picket at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 18 in long fight for new contract with pay for unpaid work.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…


Nurses protest after gov’t cancels union contracts at VA hospitals

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…


Workers discuss fight for safety after US Steel plant explosion

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…


U.S. gov’t escalates attack on Cuba’s int’l medical missions

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Cuban doctors train at health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil, in 2013, part of the Mais Medicos program there. Doctors, nurses from Cuba have treated millions in municipalities across Brazil.

In the latest move by Washington to tighten its brutal economic war against Cuba, the U.S. government revoked visas from officials in Brazil who had helped expand Cuba’s international medical missions there. Since 1963 Cuba’s revolutionary government has organized doctors…


Protests continue to grow in Iran following the 12-day war

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Oil workers protesting in Gachsaran, Iran Aug. 17, hold photo of Saber Asayesh, who died because of company disdain for workers’ lives, denial of heath care to contract workers.

The reactionary regime in Iran arrested some 21,000 people during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, setting up more than 1,000 roadblocks across the country in a crackdown on “crime” and political dissidents, a police department spokesperson…


Amnesty, not prison, for immigrant workers in US! Unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Demonstrators at White House May 1 demand Kilmar Abrego García and other detained immigrant workers be freed. Placard on left says, “We honor and remember the Key Bridge families” of six immigrant workers killed when Baltimore bridge collapsed last year.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited from his predecessor, Democrat Joseph Biden, the largest immigration prison network in U.S. history. Trump immediately began taking steps to further expand it, claiming there were tens of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

August 21, 2000 PRETORIA, South Africa — “Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa,” Nelson Mandela told delegates at the 13th international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. “Decades have been chopped from life…


As capitalist crisis deepens, getting a decent job becomes more difficult

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

Despite the hype by government officials that the U.S. economy is “booming,” pointing to the billions Washington is reaping from tariffs it’s imposing worldwide, facts show that’s not what working people see and face amid today’s mounting capitalist crisis. It’s…


For Lenin’s internationalism, against Stalin’s counterrevolution!

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Socialist Appeal, as Militant was then named, reports Dec. 18, 1937, on Dewey Commission’s exposure of Moscow Trials frame-up of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Issue on March 19, 1938, describes Stalin’s execution of V.I. Lenin’s aides, need to fight imperialist war, fascism.

The Case of Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. It contains Trotsky’s testimony before the 1937 Dewey Commission investigating frame-up charges made against him in the infamous Moscow Trials. Central leaders of the 1917…