‘The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Revolutionary leader and President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara speaks on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987. He was assassinated that year in counterrevolutionary coup.

To mark International Women’s Month, the Militant is featuring the French edition of   Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara. Sankara  led a popular uprising in August 1983 that established a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…


Farmers fight to defend their land in face of soaring prices

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

PAVO, Ga. — “The war in Ukraine and rising prices are the No. 1 topics of discussion among farmers in this area, Black and white,” said Willie Head, a longtime farmer in South Georgia. He was speaking with Sam Manuel,…


‘Militant’ takes fight to defend Ukraine out to working people

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Arlene Rubinstein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Washington, D.C., Delegate to the House, speaks with Wes Short, left, at trucker-led protest in Hagerstown, Maryland, March 16.

Explaining the stakes for working people in opposing Moscow’s war against Ukraine is at the center of discussions that members of the Socialist Workers Party are having with working people on their doorsteps, at factory gates, truck stops, on picket…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

April 7, 1997 President William Clinton reaffirmed Washington’s plans to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into eastern and central Europe at his March 20-21 conference with Russian president Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland. “I have reaffirmed that NATO enlargement…


Join United Mine Workers April 6 rally to back Warrior Met strikers!

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Miners picket Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, June 15, 2021. Rally April 6 marks one year on strike in fight to reverse deep concessions imposed on miners in 2015 bankruptcy.

ATLANTA — “We’re getting support from unions all over the country for the April 6 rally” to back United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year in Brookwood, Alabama, UMWA Director of Communications Erin Bates…



Join fight against imperialism and war

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

Statement released March 23 by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey. The Socialist Workers Party champions the fight of Ukrainian working people to defeat the bloody invasion of their country by Moscow. We point…



Workers face soaring prices, fight for wage hikes to match

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Inflation reached 40-year high last month, wreaking havoc on workers’ living standards, posing need for fight for higher wages and cost-of-living adjustments in every union contract.

Rising prices, especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities, are upending the lives of millions of working people. What government officials insisted would be “transitory” is in fact part of a longer-term crisis the capitalist rulers are putting on…


Defeat Moscow’s war on Ukraine’s independence!

US troops, nuclear arms out of Europe!
Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
March 12 protest against Russian occupation in Kherson, in southern Ukraine. Moscow’s war is shaking up world capitalist order, posing threat of broader trade conflicts and wars.

Moscow’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is shaking the capitalist world order, increasing the challenges facing the U.S. rulers as they fight to maintain their supremacy. Capitalist powers across the globe are strengthening their own military forces to defend their national…