Che: Cuba’s socialist revolution shows way forward for humanity

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Che Guevara, right, in voluntary labor at 1961 Cuban construction site. In 1987, Fidel Castro led revival of Che’s ideas on transforming working people while deepening socialist revolution

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is  Che Guevara Speaks, first published within weeks of his death in combat at the hands of the CIA and U.S.-trained forces in Bolivia in 1967. Che joined the revolutionary movement…


Thomas Sankara: ‘Revolution, women’s liberation go together’

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Thomas Sankara, leader of 1983-87 popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, delivers speech to several thousand women on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987. He explained that “the authenticity and the future of our revolution depends on women.”

To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…



Opponents of Jew-hatred condemn harassment of New York mosque

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Two major organizations that fight antisemitism — the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County and the Anti-Defamation League — condemned the Feb. 23 harassment of worshippers and staff at the Islamic Center of Melville. Lawyer Jordan Endler reportedly…


UK Amazon workers strike for higher wages, union recognition

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Striking workers march in fight for union at Amazon warehouse in Coventry, England, Feb. 13.

COVENTRY, England — Some 200 warehouse workers and their supporters marched and rallied outside the Amazon plant here Feb. 13. They were part of over 1,000 members of the General Municipal and Boilermakers union who struck for better wages and…


Two rail workers killed on the job in Alabama, North Carolina

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

ATLANTA — Two rail workers were killed on the job in the past month in Alabama and North Carolina. In a Feb. 15 statement, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters union said Brother Randall M.…


Durham school workers walk out over pay shortages

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

DURHAM, N.C. — In early February, Durham public school workers and support staff shut down as many as 12 schools in a fight with the Board of Education over pay. They set up picket lines, held rallies and brought their…


Communist International defended rights of oppressed peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
V.I. Lenin speaks at opening of Second Congress of Communist International in Petrograd, July 1920. Delegates adopted resolution drafted by Lenin on the fight against national oppression.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920, Vol. 1. The 1917 revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


How can workers strengthen the union movement today?

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
UAW picket at Stellantis plant in Morrow, Georgia, Sept. 22. Some 40,000 autoworkers walked out at GM, Ford and Stellantis for up to six weeks in 2023 contract fight. More workers are using unions to resist bosses’ attacks, while percentage of workers in unions continues to fall.

The U.S. Labor Department reported last month that union membership dropped last year to 10%. At the same time, more workers are using unions to resist the employers’ assaults. As the Socialist Workers Party 2022 resolution explains, “The low point…


Ukraine unions call for worldwide solidarity actions

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has issued an appeal for solidarity actions with Ukraine’s fight against Moscow’s invasion on its second anniversary. The appeal, signed by Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the KVPU and of the Independent…