25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022

September 8, 1997 The statement below was released by Olga Rodríguez, Socialist Workers candidate for mayor of New York City, and Robert Miller, Socialist Workers candidate for governor of New Jersey. “We salute Abner Louima for standing up to fight…


Why we defend constitutional rights

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022

The importance for working people in defending our constitutional rights and protections from government interference has been driven home by the Aug. 8 raid by the FBI, Washington’s political police, at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Since the working…


Quebec maritime workers strike

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022

SOREL, Quebec — “After 10 years of service, I earn just $22.16 dollars [US$17] an hour,” Pascal Delisle said on the picket line in front of Ocean Towing Aug. 21. Eight members of United Steelworkers Local 9599 have been on…


Socialist Workers Party 2022 campaign: ‘All out Labor Day’

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022

Socialist Workers Party candidates across the country call on our unions, co-workers and all those who want to fight against the drive of the bosses and their government to make us pay for the crisis of their decaying capitalist system…


‘The first program for women’s equality was the revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022

UNITED NATIONS — “The first program for equality that Cuban women won was the revolution itself,” Teresa Amarelle, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), told the Militant during an interview here in March. “The struggle isn’t over…


‘Militant,’ books by revolutionaries popular at Grenada Day

Vol. 86/No. 32 - September 5, 2022
‘Militant,’ books by revolutionaries popular at Grenada Day

BROOKLYN — The Socialist Workers Party and Pathfinder books got a great political response at the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique Day activities held here Aug. 21. The all-day festival draws hundreds of people, mostly Grenadians, who live in New…



Opponents of US embargo on Cuba counter rightist provocations

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022
Opponents of US embargo on Cuba counter rightist provocations

Car caravans and other actions took place across the country July 31 to demand an end to the decadeslong U.S. economic war against Cuba. In both Miami and New York, rightist provocateurs attempted to disrupt the protests. Organized by Bridges…


Central Park jogger case frame-up victim finally cleared

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022

NEW YORK — More than 30 years after he was convicted, Steven Lopez, the sixth co-defendant in a 1989 frame-up trial of five youth, who became known as the Central Park Five, was exonerated July 25 in the New York…