The Militant extends a warm welcome to the 1,316 readers who subscribed to the paper over the past eight weeks, part of a successful campaign to extend the reach of the paper, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and raise funds needed for the Socialist Workers Party.
A special welcome is extended to the 107 readers of the paper behind bars who subscribed or renewed.
We invite you to use the Militant. Write up a few lines for the On the Picket Line column about a strike in your area or other developments affecting the lives and struggles of working people. These articles are indispensable for winning solidarity and for broadening knowledge about the conditions workers face and what we’re doing to change them.
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The Militant is an invaluable tool for strengthening the union movement. It explains the class interests of workers on any question cannot be reconciled with those of the ruling capitalist families. The fact that workers are part of an international class with common interests is the starting point for the paper’s coverage of world events, from its opposition to the imperialist foreign policies of the rulers in Washington to their drive toward more trade conflicts and wars.
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Many subscribers were won to the SWP’s 2024 presidential campaign and its call to build a party of labor on the road to workers taking political power. Some endorsed the campaign. The party plans to run campaigns wherever possible in 2025.
Many of those who got subscriptions also picked up books that were on special offer. Many more titles are available at the nearest party branch or at www.pathfinderpress.com.
These books explain in more depth why the root cause of the problems working people face lies in the rule of the capitalist class. They explain why fighting Jew-hatred is of decisive importance for the unions and why the fight to end all national oppression and the second-class status of women is inseparable from the fight for the emancipation of the working class. Our class is the one force with the numbers and power capable of ridding the world of imperialist exploitation and oppression.
In the writings and speeches of leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Cuban Revolution in 1959, you’ll find vital lessons we can put to use today.
You’ll learn how working-class leadership of the highest caliber has emerged from the ranks of the U.S. working class in the writings and speeches of Malcolm X, Farrell Dobbs and James P. Cannon.
Anchored in the continuity of the revolutionary working-class movement, the Socialist Workers Party maintains unshakable confidence in the capacities of the working class. Support for the work of the party during the fall campaign was registered in the $141,637 contributed to its annual Party-Building Fund, taking it over the top.
The Militant is a tool for building a party that can assemble, educate and organize a vanguard to lead the fight to replace capitalist rule with workers power. Welcome aboard!