Two books on working-class politics and theory have just been published in Arabic translations. One is Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning Under Capitalism by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The other…
The response to the Socialist Workers Party appeal for contributions from the one-time government “stimulus” payout of $1,200 is starting to pick up. In the last week 28 contributors have sent in a total of $32,200 toward the long-term work…
Protesters organized a car caravan April 20 in Northampton, Massachusetts, demanding the U.S. government end punitive sanctions against Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. The action was organized by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts. Washington has stepped…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A wave of closures of meatpacking plants around the country is hitting working people hard, including those thrown out of a job, farmers with nowhere to sell their animals, truckers and others across rural communities where…
Working people and youth all across Cuba — backed by their government — are organizing to confront the challenges they face from the drop in world trade and the punishing economic war Washington has waged against them for over 60…
Facing increasingly rising hardships that fall most heavily on working people, thousands of anti-government protesters have resumed demonstrations across Lebanon. Actions involving people of all faiths demanding jobs, an end to crushing living conditions, for political rights and against Tehran’s…
Below are interrelated excerpts from “What the 1987 Stock Market Crash Foretold,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution published in New International no. 10. It will help readers of the Militant place today’s economic and social crisis within the longer arc…
Where Is Britain Going? by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Trotsky was a central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist International under V.I. Lenin. The book describes how the working…
MANCHESTER, England — “We are not just numbers on a sheet, we are going to fight,” sacked Debenhams department store worker Valerie Conlon said as she joined a protest outside the store in Cork, Ireland, April 21. Some 2,000 Debenhams…
