Sankara: ‘The future demands that women be liberated’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Committees for Defense of Revolution meet August 1985 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, above. After 1983 revolution working people, including women, built mass organizations to participate in running their country. Thomas Sankara speaks on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987, inset.

The excerpt below is from Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Sankara led an uprising in 1983 to establish a popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…


SWP Statement: Support Los Angeles teachers strike!

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The following statement was issued Jan. 16 by Socialist Workers Party candidates Dennis Richter for City Council District 12 and Laura Garza for School Board in Los Angeles. The strike by 31,000 teachers in Los Angeles is a battle being…


‘Cuban people know what they are defending’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The following excerpt is from testimony given by José Ramón Fernández before the People’s Court of Havana, July 12, 1999. It’s taken from the chapter “The Cuban People, Rifles in Hand, Were Convinced of Their Cause” in Playa Girón/Bay of…


Thousands of Bay Area teachers rally for school funds

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of union teachers, parents and students from the Bay Area and beyond rallied here Jan. 12 demanding more money for education, pay increases for teachers and smaller class sizes. Many of the teachers were members of…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

January 31, 1994 Washington’s and London’s callous and calculated cover-up of the causes behind the bleeding gums, diarrhea, and depression suffered by thousands of veterans of the U.S.-led war against Iraq shows the brutal disregard of capitalist politicians for the…


Letters

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

Homelessness is ‘deplorable’ I really appreciated the article on homeless people in the Jan. 21 issue. I work part time with homeless folks in a day shelter. Several have jobs in fast food or as cooks, yet cannot afford a…


SWP takes working-class campaign all across Texas

SWP candidate wins support of ‘forgotten, disrespected’
Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, and campaign supporter Samir Hazboun show on maps where they will campaign around the state as they also get on ballot in Dallas.

DALLAS — Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas Alyson Kennedy and her supporters are campaigning far and wide in Texas to defend the rights and living standards of working people. Her campaign is gaining the attention of those…


‘Take a map, stop in towns along the road and campaign’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Communist League member Julie Crawford shows health care worker Olly Tuppen Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? by Jack Barnes, in Basildon, Essex, near London, Jan. 12. “They’re rich because of us!” said Tuppen. She also got a Militant subscription.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are knocking on workers’ doors in cities, towns as well as farming and ranching areas far and wide. In many places,…


Amnesty for all immigrant workers, unite working class!

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The capitalist rulers in the U.S. and the Democratic and Republican parties that serve their interests agree that immigration policy should be built on the needs of the bosses. They turn the spigot on when the bosses need workers, and…