‘Stimulus’ fund for ‘Militant’ at $49,267, and growing!

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

The Militant’s special “stimulus” fund appeal continues to increase! Contributions jumped this week by $20,000, hitting $49,267 with a total of 105 donations to the working-class newsweekly. “Thank you so much for your excellent coverage and perspective for the working…


Vote for union set at Amazon warehouse center in Alabama

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

BESSEMER, Ala. — “The company has been calling workers in for meetings, 20 at a time, all day, every day, to talk against the union,” Jerry Burns, who works at the Amazon fulfillment center here, often unloading trucks on the…


Protests against joblessness, cop violence rock Tunisia

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

Furious at persistent joblessness, rising inflation and cop brutality, thousands protested in cities across Tunisia from Jan. 14. That day marks 10 years since the overthrow of the hated regime of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Recent actions…


UK gas workers strike over pay cuts, work hours

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

STOCKPORT, England — Striking gas workers organized picketing here and in other parts of the U.K. to stand up to threatened pay cuts by their bosses at Centrica, which owns British Gas. Some 7,500 British Gas workers who install and…


Liberals use Capitol ‘insurrection’ to target political rights

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

Liberal Democrats and capitalist bosses are using the action by some Donald Trump supporters who entered the Capitol Jan. 6 — falsely claiming it was an “insurrection” or “fascist coup” — to escalate their attacks on freedom of speech and…


US has long history of rigged elections

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

Liberal media and Democrats sneer at claims of chicanery in the 2020 elections. But stealing the vote and rigging elections is not new in U.S. capitalist politics. The Democrats often led the way over the decades. In the 1960 presidential…


Cuban Five ‘defended revolution against colossal injustice’

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021
Above right, “The Jury’s Verdict” by Antonio Guerrero depicts fellow prisoners loudly applauding Cuban Five on their return after they were convicted, which he called “the first act of solidarity with our cause.” Above left, Cubans in Holguín celebrate release of remaining members of the Five. Below, from left, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and René González reunited in Havana, Dec. 17, 2014.

 One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Absolved by Solidarity: 16 Watercolors for 16 Years of Unjust Imprisonment of the Cuban Five, a bilingual edition in English and Spanish, by Antonio Guerrero. The Cuban revolutionaries had been…


Working-class fight for power is central to ‘Jewish Question’

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021
Above, Issues of Socialist Appeal, as the Militant was called at the time, campaigning for Jewish refugees to be admitted to the U.S. Below, Jewish refugees aboard S.S. St. Louis reach Havana in 1939. They were refused entry by the Cuban government and in Miami by the Roosevelt administration. The 900 on board were forced back to Europe and 250 perished in Nazi camps.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon, 346 pages, Pathfinder Press, fourth edition, 2020. BY MAGGIE TROWE I urge Militant readers to buy, read and study the new Pathfinder edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation. The…


Workers need our own party, a labor party!

As US administration changes, workers continue to face crisis
Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021
Protest in Camacari, Brazil, Jan. 12 against Ford’s decision to close its auto factories in Brazil.

Millions remain out of work, with fresh unemployment claims rising to 965,000 in the U.S. for the week of Jan. 14, the highest since August. Hardest hit continue to be hotel, restaurant and other service workers, with many of these…


India farmers set protest and global solidarity actions Jan. 26

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021
Indian farmers in tractorcade outside New Delhi Jan. 7 protest new laws that would end government-guaranteed price supports. Inset, support action in Yuba City, California, Jan. 16.

Hundreds of thousands of working farmers are maintaining their protests around the Indian capital, New Delhi, determined to roll back laws aimed at crushing their livelihoods. The measures passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government would end state-guaranteed minimum prices…