Month: December 2018

Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive (Final)

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

December 27, 1993 Washington manipulated its economic might to shove concessions down the throats of Paris and Tokyo as the world trade talks under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade closed December 15. After caving in…

Lenin: ‘I declare war to death on Great Russian chauvinism’

Below are excerpts from Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-1923. The first is a memo by Vladimir Lenin to the political bureau of the All-Russian Communist Party, formerly the Bolshevik Party. From chapter two of the book — “The…

Sulaymaniyah students protest campus conditions

SULAYMANIYAH, Kurdistan — Around 100 women at the University of Sulaymaniyah breached the college’s 5 p.m. curfew for female students Nov. 23, walking out of their dorms at 11 p.m. to protest living conditions there. The protest continued until midnight…

National coalition against censorship says stop Florida bans on ‘Militant’

The National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida have sent letters calling on Florida prison officials to cease their ongoing attempts to keep the socialist newsweekly Militant out of the hands of subscribers behind bars…

‘We won!’ Marriott hotel workers vote to end strike, return to work

SAN FRANCISCO — Marriott hotel workers here ended their strike Dec. 3, voting by 99.6 percent to accept a new four-year contract. The workers, members of UNITE HERE, kept picket lines strong for two months at seven of the city’s…

Welcome to the 1,404 new readers of the ‘Militant’!

The Militant welcomes the 1,404 readers who subscribed over the last eight weeks! A final scoreboard on the drive to sell 1,400 subscriptions and an equal number of books on working-class politics by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, along…

Disaster from Camp Fire is result of capitalist rule

CHICO, Calif. — It was raining heavily when Socialist Workers Party members from Oakland arrived at the Chico Walmart parking lot here Nov. 29. Our goal was to extend solidarity with survivors of the Camp Fire camped out here and…

Working class must lead rural revolt against capitalist rulers

Around the world, a mood of angry revolt is spreading among the “people from nowhere” — workers, family farmers and the rural poor, those who never have a voice in the big business press. Whether wage slaves or debt slaves,…

Moscow launches assault on Ukraine access to Sea of Azov

In an aggressive inflammation of tensions, the capitalist rulers in Moscow ordered Russian forces to fire on and seize three Ukrainian naval vessels, including a tugboat, and their crews as they tried to pass through the Kerch Strait Nov. 25…