LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — “The gains we have made have been because of our mobilizations in the streets,” Jesús Núñez, national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC), told the Militant. He described their yearslong fight to win pensions,…
Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel since Hamas launched its pogrom on October 7. Titles in purple are from last week’s Militant. News from the pages of the…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Members and supporters of the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC) held a conference here Nov. 6-11 to discuss and win support for their fight for retirement pensions. Dozens of Haitian and Dominican sugarcane workers, women as…
Below is an excerpt from the review of the new edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon published in the Feb. 1, 2021, issue of the Militant. It has been updated since Hamas’ Oct. 7…
Nine years after the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 protesting students from Ayotzinapa by powerful drug cartels acting in collusion with the Mexican military and police, their relatives and supporters continue to protest and demand answers from the government…
Retirees and oil workers across Iran are continuing weekly protests to defend living standards while workers elsewhere are striking in the face of an annual inflation rate of 46%. At the same time, working people in Iran have largely boycotted…
Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people to take political power in a popular revolution in 1979 on…
NEW YORK — Opponents of Washington’s six-decade-long economic war against Cuba will march and rally here Oct. 28 and in other cities worldwide that week. The actions are being organized to draw attention to the Nov. 2-3 U.N. General Assembly…
Oil refinery workers in five provinces of Iran and on five oil-drilling platforms in the Persian Gulf are protesting over wages, pensions and safety conditions. The protests include both “permanent” refinery and drilling-platform workers — who are among the better-paid…
In the midst of Moscow’s long and brutal war against Ukraine, and under cover of martial law at home, the Ukrainian capitalist class is pushing a new labor law that would weaken the labor movement. The working class is leading…
