Volunteers for Pathfinder Press, which publishes books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries worldwide, have been involved in activities across North America over the last several months to expand sales and distribution of the books. They’ve…
PUEBLO, Colo. — “Get up! Get down! Pueblo is a union town,” chanted hundreds of people May 7 as they rallied outside the offices of Pueblo City Schools District 60, the first day of a strike by school workers here.…
Below are excerpts from The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Fraud of Education Reform Under Capitalism by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes. Copyright © 2000 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. The purpose of education in class…
The article below corrects the initial weeks of Militant coverage of the large working-class protests that began in Mashhad, Iran, on Dec. 28 and swept some 90 cities and towns across the length and breadth of that country in…
PHOENIX — A sea of people in red T-shirts flowed down the streets here April 26, the first day of a statewide walkout by teachers and other school workers in Arizona. More than 50,000 marched and rallied at the state…
The strikes and protests by teachers and other school workers from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona and now North Carolina is something new. We have not seen a working-class fight like this in decades. “It’s a class of…
Kim Jong Un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North, met South Korean President Moon Jae-in April 27, the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2007. The meeting — and more to…
DENVER — “I’m interested in a fighting labor movement. These books and your newspaper look like they point the way,” Eddie Asher told Socialist Workers Party member Jacquie Henderson at the thousands-strong rally of teachers, school workers, bus drivers and…
“We are not criminals, we are the workforce,” said the sign Maria Cuevas carried at this year’s May 1 International Workers Day march in Yakima, Washington. Underneath she pasted nearly two dozen photos of immigrant workers picking crops, driving tractors…
PHILADELPHIA — Meek Mill, an internationally known African-American rap artist, was released on bail from the state penitentiary in Chester April 24. Upon hearing the rumor he would be freed, hundreds gathered outside the prison, including nearby neighbors, some holding…
