Puerto Rico teachers protest ‘worst school start in decades’

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Teachers, students and parents rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 15 during protest against closings of public schools, overcrowding in those still open and poor conditions teachers face.

Hundreds of teachers, parents and students joined marches called by the Federation of Teachers of Puerto Rico in San Juan and Mayagüez Aug. 15 to protest the disaster being imposed on teachers and students by the colonial overlords in Washington.…


Teachers in New Zealand strike over pay, conditions

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A 24-hour strike by almost 30,000 teachers Aug. 15 closed most of this country’s primary and intermediate schools. The teachers’ union, the New Zealand Educational Institute, is in contract negotiations with the government over pay and…


‘Teamster Bureaucracy’ is a must read for workers today

SWP, Teamster militants fought bosses, FBI frame-up
Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018

Teamster Bureaucracy by Farrell Dobbs, 440 pages, Pathfinder Press, second edition, 2018. BY ALYSON KENNEDY The wealth of lessons in the four-volume Teamsters series by Farrell Dobbs is essential for workers who are beginning to see the need to fight…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018

September 6, 1993 “Most people look at prisoners as scum of the earth. But we’re almost all working-class people, human beings with an interest in fighting for human rights. We have common interests and the only way we’re going to…


Fidel Castro: ‘Maurice Bishop was a true revolutionary’

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Maurice Bishop, left, and Fidel Castro at May Day rally in Cuba, 1980. “Grenada had become a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean,” Fidel Castro said after Bishop was killed in counterrevolutionary coup. “No one could have foreseen the tragedy” to come.

Below is a speech by Fidel Castro given in Havana on Nov. 14, 1983, to more than 1 million people gathered to honor 24 Cuban volunteers who were killed during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. It’s included in Maurice Bishop…


Working people welcome Eritrea-Ethiopia peace deal

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Hundreds of thousands lined procession route from airport to center of Eritrea’s capital Asmara when Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived July 8 to sign peace treaty after 20 years of war. Eritrean youth have been subjected to mandatory conscription for “national service.”

After two decades of war and conflict, the rulers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed an agreement to normalize relations July 9. Washington backed the initiative in an effort to bring capitalist stability and promote the U.S. rulers’ interests in the…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018

The article “Venezuela: Workers, Farmers Face Effects of Capitalist Crisis” in the Aug. 27 Militant mistakenly identified Edwin Fruit, as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Washington state. He is the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate there.


Witch hunt by liberals against Trump a danger to workers

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Ex-CIA head Leon Panetta greets Hillary Clinton, 2013. Panetta and group of ex-spy chiefs defend ex-CIA head John Brennan, who lost his security clearance after calling President Donald Trump "treasonous." In drive to bring down Trump, liberals build up the rulers' spy agencies.

As President Donald Trump continues to win support for improvements on jobs and production and in foreign policy, the liberal media, Democrats and some Republicans are trying to breathe life into their waning efforts to overturn the 2016 election and…


White nationalist rally shows less support for racism in US today

Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018
Aug. 12 "Unite the Right" action in Washington, D.C. Fascist groups have little support in working class. Goal of liberal and left hysteria is keeping workers chained to Democratic Party.

The following commentary is by the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland. After all the hype on the left and in the liberal media, only two dozen marchers showed up for the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right”…