May Day points the way forward

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

The Militant salutes the millions of workers who took to the streets on May Day around the world. International Workers Day was born May 1, 1886, when working people and our unions in the U.S. launched a fight for the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

May 19, 1997 HAVANA — Cubans poured into the streets leading to Revolution Plaza here on May Day. About 1.3 million demonstrated in Havana. Altogether, several million people turned out across the nation, in one of the largest mobilizations here…


Defend Ukraine independence!
Moscow out of all of Ukraine!

Workers in Russia, Belarus protest Moscow’s war
Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
April 30 “Life will win” concert in Dnipro, Ukraine, subway station to celebrate fight against Moscow’s invasion, express defiance. Many from harder-hit towns have taken refuge there.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues to face courageous resistance from the Ukrainian people, who are determined to prevent Russian forces from conquering their country and to win back the territory Moscow has already seized. Russian forces continue pounding cities across…


Workers rally in over 35 US cities on Int’l Workers Day

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Washington, D.C., participants in May Day march.

NEW YORK — Working people joined together in protests in more than 35 cities across the U.S. on International Workers Day May 1. Many of the actions — which ranged from a couple hundred to a few thousand — drew…


Get and read ‘Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity’

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Capitalism has produced many things, good and bad, in the course of its evolution. The most vital of all the social forces it has created is the working class. Above, workers at Putilov locomotive factory in Petrograd, Russia, meet in July 1920 to elect deputies to city’s soviet.

Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History by Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, George Novack and Mary-Alice Waters; 177 pages, Pathfinder Press, 2021. BY BETSEY STONE Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View…


Wide interest in ‘Militant,’ SWP at May Day protests

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
At the Philadelphia May Day event, Osborne Hart, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, talks to construction worker Adrian Andrade. “We work really hard for very little pay,” Andrade said as he subscribed to the Militant.

The April 30-May 8 target week to boost the drive to expand the readership of the Militant, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and win contributions to the Militant Fighting Fund has gotten off to a good start. Socialist…


Cuban people join May Day march to defend their socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Contingent of health care workers along with students from international medical school at May Day march in Havana. Center banner says, “Long live international solidarity.”

HAVANA — More than 600,000 working people marched here May 1, International Workers Day, and hundreds of thousands more paraded through other cities and towns, big and small, across Cuba. It was a massive, celebratory expression by Cuba’s working people…



Protests in Grand Rapids: ‘Arrest cop who killed Patrick Lyoya!’

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

Demonstrations protesting the killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have been taking place every evening at 6 p.m., Lakyra Price-Sanders told the Militant  in a phone interview April 29. “We’re continuing to do what we can to bring…