Albert Woodfox, a former Black Panther who emerged from nearly 44 years in solitary confinement as still a determined political fighter, died Aug. 4. He was 75. Released from jail in 2016, Woodfox published a book, Solitary: My Story of…
Messages of support to the Cuban people and government keep arriving from around the world following a devastating fire that has destroyed four of the eight fuel tanks at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s largest oil storage and distribution…
Three Belarusian rail workers who could face the death penalty are going to trial facing government charges of “terrorism” and “treason.” This is part of a broader assault on the trade union movement of Belarus as the dictatorial regime of…
A Miami jury found Argentine naval officer Roberto Guillermo Bravo liable July 1 for his role in what has become known as the Trelew Massacre, in a civil case brought by relatives of four of 19 political prisoners who were…
Still unable to stamp out resistance to its rule 17 months after they carried out a bloody coup, Myanmar’s military brass is stepping up repression, executing four political opponents July 23, the first use of the death penalty in more…
Teachers across Iran have been stepping up their push to win wage and pension increases to keep up with inflation and to defend free public education. The value of the rial, the national currency, has plummeted 25% since late March.…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…
Four teachers’ unions in Ghana, West Africa, went on strike July 4 after the government refused to pay teachers and nonteaching staff a cost-of-living allowance of at least 20% of their wages. Annual inflation in the country is now 27.6%.…
Sixty-one years after African anti-imperialist independence fighter Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, a gold-crowned tooth, the only part of his body that exists, was buried in a state funeral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30. The date marked…
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — Nine members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22, went on strike at Form-A-Feed here June 13. They are the only union members among the over 200 workers at the company’s two mills,…
