Another bakery worker’s death

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…


No worker needs to die on the job!

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Two bakery workers were killed on the job in North Carolina in recent weeks, among the thousands killed at work every year. The AFL-CIO reported last month that in 2020, 340 workers were killed because of hazardous conditions on the…



‘When Ukraine is free, then the Tatars will be free!’

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

“When Ukraine is free, Tatars will be free. Of course, the struggle for our national rights will continue, but nothing like what we face under Russian occupation,” Melek Maksudoglu recently told the Militant. She got to know the paper in…


Ricardo Alarcón, leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Ricardo Alarcón, a decadeslong central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, died in Havana April 30. He was 84 years old. Born in 1937, Alarcón was a leader of the July 26 Movement at the University of Havana during the struggle…


SWP sets drive to campaign, get on Minnesota ballot

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS — The Socialist Workers Party in Minnesota is organizing a concentrated two-week effort to get the party’s gubernatorial ticket on the ballot while taking its working-class program across the state. “We’re asking supporters from around the country to come…


Farmer’s art helps dig well, boost Militant Fighting Fund

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

DINUBA, Calif. — On May 4 Socialist Workers Party members Carole Lesnick and Joel Britton, the party’s candidate for governor, joined Fresno farmer Will Scott for a visit to Sweet Home Ranch, near here, where Paul Buxman raises peaches and…


Albany forum discusses steps to strengthen SWP’s political work

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Forum in Albany April 30 heard John Studer, speaking, SWP National Committee member and editor of Militant. From left, other speakers were Beverly Bernardo, Communist League in Canada; chair Jacob Perasso; and Alex Huinil, SWP Albany branch organizer.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Twenty-six people attended a special Militant Labor Forum here April 30 titled “A Proletarian Line Confronting Today’s World and the Necessity of Building the Socialist Workers Party.” Speakers included Alex Huinil, organizer of the SWP branch in…


Moscow out of Ukraine now! Defend Ukraine independence!

For solidarity of workers in Ukraine, Russia against Putin’s war
Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Familiares de soldados ucranianos atrapados en planta de acero en Mariúpol por fuerzas rusas protestan en Cherkasy, exigen su evacuación tras meses de resistencia a invasión, 6 de mayo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his speech at the annual May 9 display of military force in Moscow on the anniversary of the defeat of Germany in the Second World War. He didn’t admit the defeats that Russian forces have…


‘Militant’ builds opposition to Moscow’s war, wins readers

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

The stakes for working people in defeating Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine are at the center of discussions Socialist Workers Party members and supporters are having as they head into the final days of the international drive to win new readers…