1974: ‘James P. Cannon built a Bolshevik-type party in the US’

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
SWP leaders James P. Cannon, left, and Farrell Dobbs during Smith Act frame-up trial in 1941. Both were convicted, jailed for 13 months for opposing the U.S. rulers’ imperialist war policy.

With this issue of the Militant, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 21, 1974, death of James P. Cannon, a decadeslong communist leader and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers Party, the party’s first national secretary…


SWP presidential ticket on ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party got a FedEx letter from Tennessee Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins at its national campaign headquarters in New York Aug. 12 confirming that the SWP presidential ticket of Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter will be on…


What’s behind the riots and political turmoil in the UK

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
“The support from strangers is unbelievable,” said Chanaka Balasuriya, a Sri Lankan, at his shop in Southport. Workers came to help fix shop up after looting by anti-immigrant rioters.

LONDON — The horrific stabbing to death of three young girls in Southport, near Liverpool, was met with widespread revulsion. Working people turned out to show their outrage. Forces on both the right and left of capitalist politics intervened in…


Endorse the SWP campaign! Workers need a party of labor

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Port worker Louie McKinnon talks to Rachele Fruit, SWP presidential candidate, at Longshore union hall in Miami Aug. 11. He said, “Democrats and Republicans don’t care about workers."

Why you should endorse, join the SWP campaign Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, and her running mate, Dennis Richter, speak for the historic line of march of the working class, explaining workers need to rely…


Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Jews fight against Nazi Holocaust

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Jewish resistance fighters captured by Nazi stormtroopers during 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This heroic rebellion was first and largest act of armed resistance against Holocaust.

This year marks the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — one of the first and the largest act of armed resistance against the Nazi Holocaust to exterminate the Jews. A year later in August 1944, Polish workers rose…


Freed prisoners: ‘Putin, Russian people are not the same’

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

“Don’t confuse the Putin regime with Russia; they are not the same,” newly released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza said in Bonn, Germany, Aug. 2. Not differentiating between the government in Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine and the Russian…


Women in Cuba joined in deepening the socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Women in Santiago de Cuba protest U.S. Ambassador Earl Smith, right, in July 1957, demand an end to U.S. support for Batista dictatorship. Women joined revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro, and after Jan. 1, 1959, victory they helped lead advance of socialist revolution.

To help mark the anniversary of July 26, 1953, the opening of the Cuban Revolution, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution — From Santiago de…


On the Picket Line: Workers fight boss attacks

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Hundreds of hotel workers rally in Montreal Aug. 8, part of one-day province-wide strike in fight for higher wages and to maintain more tolerable working conditions won by CSN union.

Thousands of Quebec hotel workers strike for higher wages BY KATY LEROUGETEL MONTREAL — “Since the pandemic the price of a hotel room has gone up 67%. We’re asking for 36% over four years!” Michel Valiquette, representative of the Federation…


Help overturn ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prison!

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

It’s been over three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, barred a subscriber to the Militant there from getting issue no. 17. Upon learning of the impoundment in mid-May, Militant attorney David Goldstein appealed. After…


Washington hands off Venezuela!
Stop US threats against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

The political crisis over the disputed results of the July 28 Venezuelan presidential elections has deepened as Washington, with imperial arrogance, continues to violate the country’s sovereignty by intervening in the oil-rich country’s internal affairs. President Nicolás Maduro was officially…