‘Roseanne’ reboot infuriates liberals, stirs debate

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

The remake of TV comedy “Roseanne,” coming 21 years after the last series ended, has incurred the wrath of liberal commentators and critics. The reason for their anger? The lead character, like the show’s creator Roseanne Barr, voted for President…


Despite protests, Ottawa deports Guatemalan woman

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

MONTREAL — Despite solidarity picket lines and other actions here, in Toronto and other Canadian cities April 13, Canadian Border Services Agency immigration cops deported 42-year-old Lucy Francineth Granados back to Guatemala. She had been living and working without papers…


New Zealand bus drivers walk out over pay, work schedules

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “I worked 69 hours last week. Some worked more,” bus driver Elizabeth Kaulima told the Militant on a picket line here outside Pavlovich Coachlines April 19. “We’re working long hours to try and make ends meet.…


Minneapolis beer truck drivers strike over staffing, safety

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018
Teamsters Local 792 members on strike against beer distributor J.J. Taylor in Minneapolis picket April 12. Company demand to eliminate two-person truck crew threatens workers’ safety.

MINNEAPOLIS — “We’re striking for safety,” Todd Tucker, a 20-year driver for J.J. Taylor, Minnesota’s largest beer distributor, told Socialist Workers Party members and supporters when we joined their picket line here April 17. The 95 drivers, helpers and warehouse…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

The article “Lessons of 1979-83 Grenada Revolution Debated in UK,” in issue no. 16 incorrectly said that Fidel Castro’s remarks about Bernard Coard’s “Pol Pot-type group” were presented at a rally in Havana. Castro’s remarks were presented in a 1985…


‘Summon masses to struggle against imperialism and war’

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

Below is an excerpt from Lenin’s Struggle for a Revolutionary International, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. In September 1916 the last national conference of the united Socialist Democratic Party of Germany took place before it split.…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

May 10, 1993 KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — Representing labor, church, student and community groups, 500 people marched through this town April 24 in support of striking mushroom workers. The march followed by a rally at a park next to the…


‘Sankara’: a vivid portrayal of Burkina Faso Revolution

London performance depicts how communist leadership of 1983-87 revolution resonates today
Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

Sankara, a play written and directed by Ricky Dujany, 2018, ran at London’s Cockpit Theatre from March 20 to April 14. BY JONATHAN SILBERMAN AND ÖGMUNDUR JÓNSSON LONDON — Our congratulations to Ricky Dujany, who wrote and directed the play…


SWP: ‘All US troops out of Korea! End sanctions against the DPRK!’

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

The following message was sent to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by Steve Clark, writing on behalf of the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists April 13. The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send greetings on the Democratic…


US-led Syria missile attack driven by conflicts with Tehran, Moscow

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018
Douma, eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, March 30. After five-year siege, air assaults and chemical weapon attack, Syrian government forced opposition groups to surrender and leave.

The imperialist rulers in Washington, London and Paris carried out a joint missile attack on the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship’s chemical weapons operations in Syria April 13. This followed the regime’s gas attack on civilians in opposition stronghold Douma, a Damascus…