August 5, 1996 BELFAST — The crisis of British rule in Northern Ireland intensified as nationalists staunchly resisted rightist marches through their streets and the intimidation of their communities. On July 12 in Derry, the police fired 1,000 plastic bullets…
If you follow the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, or virtually any of the U.S. capitalist media, you saw front-page reports that Cuba was convulsed July 11 by a massive, spontaneous anti-government “uprising.” That the Cuban…
LOUISVILLE, Ohio — The United Steelworkers union announced July 13 that striking workers had ratified a new four-year contract with Allegheny Technologies Inc. The union said it “raises wages, provides lump-sum payments and protects affordable, high-quality health care for current…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1). This excerpt is from a report to the…
“What the imperialists cannot forgive,” Fidel Castro told the Cuban people at a rally in Havana April 16, 1961, on the eve of Washington’s attempted Bay of Pigs invasion, was “that we have made a socialist revolution right under their…
Under the banner of “Leading the Working Class to Take Power/ Join the Socialist Workers Party!/ Build the Communist Vanguard!” the SWP is hosting an International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24. Working-class fighters who’ve…
Message from Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, to July 11 rally in Washington, D.C. The Socialist Workers Party calls for unconditional recognition of Israel as a homeland for Jews. We urge unions and all…
Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members voted down a new tentative agreement with Volvo truck bosses July 9 — the third time angry union members have rejected deals they consider insufficient this year. Since the vote the striking…
“The Socialist Workers Party’s International Active Workers Conference July 22-24 will be a springboard for campaigns led by the 20 candidates the party has endorsed in the 2021 elections,” John Studer, SWP national campaign director, told the Militant. “We will…
WASHINGTON — Over 1,000 people joined the July 11 “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People” here. The protest was called following a spate of anti-Jewish assaults in May. There were more than 1,200 incidents of antisemitic…
