Vol. 80/No. 46      December 12, 2016

 

1955 to 1960s ‘Militant’ added to those available online

 
A whole new range of past issues of the Militant are now available online going back to the 1950s! Just click on “view back issues” at www.themilitant.com to access the paper’s archives, including the newly added pdf files from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.

These issues cover key events in the class struggle, including the Hungarian Revolution and growing crisis of world Stalinism, the struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation, the victory and early years of the Cuban Revolution, and the very beginnings of Washington’s war against the workers and farmers of Vietnam. The paper provides firsthand reporting on events that changed history, speeches by communist leaders such as Fidel Castro, and the sharp humor of Laura Gray’s cartoons and Harry Ring’s “Great Society” column.

The record of the Socialist Workers Party’s participation in the labor movement and political action is very much present in these pages, even under the challenges of the 1950s. The issues document the 1960 solidarity and fact-finding trip to Cuba by Farrell Dobbs, the SWP presidential candidate that year, and how it was used in the Militant to campaign to get out the truth about the revolution to workers in the U.S.

The team of eight volunteers who put the Militant online every week organized a special two-day effort to upload the new editions — a process that previously would have taken eight months.

Over the past year, volunteer scanners, indexers and others have also made available online the entire archive of Intercontinental Press and every issue of New International and its predecessors back to 1934. These publications are fully indexed and the Militant is currently indexed back to 1990. All are available at www.themilitant.com. Work continues to make every issue of the Militant, back to 1928 and from 1967 to 1982, available online and fully indexed.  
 
 
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