Year: 2022

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund (final chart)

First Pathfinder e-books for blind readers are available

The first six electronic books from Pathfinder Press fully accessible for readers who are blind or have low vision are now available from Bookshare.org. Pathfinder publishes books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and others that present a revolutionary working-class road…

Anti-labor outfit targets rail workers and their unions

Rail workers are fighting today to push back their bosses and the government, both of which are responsible for working conditions that are dangerous, exhausting and tear at workers’ ability to have a family and union life. The fight they…

Socialist Workers Party offers road forward

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 16. Socialist Workers Party candidates in 2022 were the only voice saying that politics is not Red vs. Blue, or liberal vs. conservative, but class vs. class. They…

25, 50, and 75 years ago

December 1, 1997 Problems on the railroad have clogged California ports, stranded grain crops in the Midwest, and closed some Gulf Coast petrochemical plants that are unable to get needed materials. The meltdown began early this summer after the Union…

Capitalist crisis fuels inflation as production, trade stagnate

The worldwide capitalist crisis is hitting working people hard, with increasing indications that we face an extended period of stagflation — a combination of continued rising prices with falling capitalist production, trade and workers’ jobs. Soaring prices, especially on basic…

Liberals push to cancel book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett

In an unbridled attack on freedom of speech, hundreds of editors, writers, publishers, librarians and a wide variety of other individuals have signed an online petition demanding that Penguin Random House halt plans to publish a book by U.S. Supreme…

Donate your California gas-tax rebate to the ‘Militant’

Workers are being hard hit by soaring prices for food, gas, rents, medical expenses and more. The Militant newspaper — which fighting workers and trade unionists depend on for clarity on politics and as a guide to action — is…

‘Cuba needs no lessons from the US about democracy’

Below are major excerpts from the reply by Yuri Gala, Cuba’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, to the speech by U.S. representative John Kelley after the Nov. 3 U.N. vote condemning Washington’s economic war on Cuba.  Mr. Chairman: In…

Australia protests hit racist murder of Aboriginal boy

SYDNEY — Thousands across Australia joined vigils protesting the racist murder of 15-year-old Aboriginal boy Cassius Turvey, inset, in Perth in West Australia. Some 3,000 people rallied here Nov. 2, one of more than 40 actions in cities and regional…