SEATTLE — Small logging farmers in Washington state are waging a battle with the state Forest Practices Board that controls logging on private land. It involves state regulations enforcing excessively large buffers that the farmers are required to maintain next…
The following is an excerpt from the Political Resolution adopted by the SWP at its convention last December and printed in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…
HAVANA — Several industrial bakery workers from the U.S., members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, had the opportunity to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s trade unions earlier this year. We met with Jorge Luis…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — On March 16 participants in the 15th Erbil International Book Fair observed a moment of silence, joining people across Kurdistan in marking 35 years since the Saddam Hussein dictatorship attacked the town of Halabja with…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Over 50 people attended a March 11 presentation by Steve Clark on The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. Clark is editorial director of Pathfinder Press and…
Marking a year of the fight for Ukrainian independence against Moscow’s invasion, the Books of the Month this week features Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition. It contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union challenging bureaucratic domination and repression.…
April 13, 1998 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — “Moral authority dictates that we should not abandon those who helped us in the darkest hour in the history of this country,” said South African president Nelson Mandela. “I am not going to…
MANCHESTER, England — “The unions should fight for amnesty for all workers who the government says don’t have ‘proper’ papers,” Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate for Manchester City Council, told retired sewing machine operator Pam Grocock when he knocked on…
WASHINGTON — Socialist Workers Party members found interest in the party’s program and activities when they campaigned at a March 18 “Fund people’s needs, not the war machine” protest across from the White House. The action was called by…
HAVANA — An indication of the interest in revolutionary working-class politics among workers and youth visiting the Pathfinder stand at the Havana International Book Fair this February was the 31 who subscribed to the Militant. Volunteers at the Pathfinder bookstand…
