Back Ukraine independence fight, not aims of US imperialist rulers

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

The Socialist Workers Party and the Militant stand for the unconditional defense of self-determination and independence for Ukraine. This is part of our communist continuity back to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. We fielded a series of reporting teams in…




‘Militant’ drive for new readers gets out truth about Ukraine

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
“We count on workers and farmers to defend Ukraine’s independence,” Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate for National Assembly, told student rally in Toronto March 12.

The nine-week international drive to sell 1,600 subscriptions to the Militant, the same number of books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders, and to raise $165,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund is off to an excellent start. As…


Truckers protest gov’t mandates, fuel price hikes, attacks by bosses

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

WASHINGTON — The People’s Convoy, organized by over-the-road truckers and others who oppose overreaching government COVID mandates and other attacks on their livelihoods, has been based at the Hagerstown, Maryland, speedway since March 6. Participants are still arriving to join…


Florida anti-solicitation law is attack on democratic rights

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Worker in Palm Beach County, Florida, looking for a job. Officials there have outlawed soliciting or panhandling on or near any road, restricting free speech and attacking political rights.

In 2015 officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, outlawed so-called panhandling or soliciting on or near any road, claiming it endangered people’s safety. Similar laws that exist across the country are used to turn workers who are homeless into criminals…



Lenin fought for self-determination of oppressed nations, Ukraine

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Working people in Odesa, Ukraine, greet Red Army after 1919 liberation from counterrevolutionary White Army, which attempted to reimpose rule of the landlord and capitalist classes.

As Ukrainian working people defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand, against Moscow’s invasion, this excerpt from Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922-23 is a special feature explaining why communists support Ukrainian independence. The book describes how V.I. Lenin,…


Minneapolis teachers, support staff strike over wages, hiring

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Over 1,000 members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers rally March 8, first day of citywide strike. Workers demand pay raise for teachers and support staff, and smaller class sizes.

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 4,500 teachers and professional support staff, represented by Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59, went on strike March 8. The school district has hard-balled the workers’ needs in negotiations so the union authorized the strike by 97%.…


Access to the Militant’s unique Ukraine coverage

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to self-determination, a political conquest of the Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution in Lenin’s time that remains decisive to forging working-class unity. Acting on that communist continuity the paper…