‘What a truly radical reading of the human past looks like’

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Below is a review by Peter W. Wood of the new Pathfinder title Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity. Wood is the author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project; president of the National Association of Scholars…



Rolls-Royce workers strike to raise wages

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

MONTREAL — Some 530 strikers at the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine maintenance plant here rejected another company “final offer” by a vote of 94% at a well-attended union meeting May 11. The workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions…


Fight for a sliding scale of wages and hours

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

Soaring prices on basic necessities are wreaking havoc with the lives of working people and our families, at the same time millions remain out of work and bosses are pushing pay cuts, “suicide schedules” and speedups that damage our bodies.…


No worker needs to die on the job!

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Two bakery workers were killed on the job in North Carolina in recent weeks, among the thousands killed at work every year. The AFL-CIO reported last month that in 2020, 340 workers were killed because of hazardous conditions on the…


Another bakery worker’s death

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…


May Day points the way forward

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

The Militant salutes the millions of workers who took to the streets on May Day around the world. International Workers Day was born May 1, 1886, when working people and our unions in the U.S. launched a fight for the…


George Novack: SWP leader, defender of political rights

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
George Novack, left, led many successful defense campaigns over decades. Above, Novack with James Kutcher, the “legless veteran,” sacked from federal job in 1948 for being SWP member.

When Socialist Workers Party leader George Novack joined in initiating the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in 1973, he brought along decades of leadership experience in revolutionary working-class politics and defense campaigns. In the 1940s he…


Quebec Sobeys warehouse workers strike for pay raise

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

TERREBONNE, Quebec — “I’m fed up being run by threats,” striker Patrick Sirois told the Militant  on the Sobeys distribution center picket line here April 9. The 190 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 501 members, on strike since Feb.…