Click below for a downloadable pdf of this article MONTREAL — On Aug. 24, with much of Canada’s freight rail and commuter train system at a standstill following three days of company lockouts and union walkouts, the Canada Industrial Relations…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SYDNEY — Agnes Sullivan, a member of the Communist League in New Zealand for four decades, died in Christchurch there in June. She was 91. “Agnes met the party when she was in her 50s,” Janet Roth, a leader of…
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…
“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…
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…
From longshoremen in the U.S. to rail workers in Canada, hotel workers in Los Angeles to park workers in Minneapolis, flight attendants who’ve gone years without a new contract to independent truckers hit by rising costs, more and more working…
