Year: 2022

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 12-May 17 (final chart)

Moscow out of Ukraine now! Defend Ukraine independence!

For solidarity of workers in Ukraine, Russia against Putin’s war

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

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…

Albany forum discusses steps to strengthen SWP’s political work

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…

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

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…

SWP sets drive to campaign, get on Minnesota ballot

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…

Ricardo Alarcón, leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution

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…

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

“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…

After win, then loss, at NY warehouses, Amazon workers press fight for union

NEW YORK — “We’re still at the beginning of the fight for the union,” Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, told the Militant May 9. The union won the vote for recognition at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten…

No worker needs to die on the job!

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…