Growing numbers in Iran — including prisoners, retirees and unionists — are demanding an end to the death penalty. “Execution is a medieval and irreversible sentence that can never improve the conditions of society,” Reza Sadeghi wrote July 25 on…
Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. As the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 1968, Halstead, who had…
August 16, 1999 Thousands of working people, youth, soldiers, and others have hit the streets in cities and towns throughout Serbia. They are taking advantage of the first openings since the U.S./NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia began March 24 to express…
Workers across Minnesota sign to put SWP on ballot MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of workers in Minnesota are learning about the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates, Rachele Fruit for U.S. president and Dennis Richter for vice president, as the party…
In recent weeks the U.S. rulers have succeeded in reestablishing some stability in their two-capitalist-party political setup, with both Democrats and Republicans uniting behind their respective candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. They’re each setting out to rally interest and…
OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 17 Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced the exoneration of 50 Black sailors who had been tried for mutiny and jailed during World War II. The announcement came on the 80th anniversary of a huge…
Hezbollah’s missile attack on Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-ruled Golan Heights, killed 12 Druze Arab boys and girls and wounded 16 more at a soccer field July 27. The barbaric attack by the Tehran-backed group has increased the threat of…
Since the watershed in world politics marked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the explosion of Jew-hatred on the heels of the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom that killed over 1,200 people, mostly Jews, in Israel, capitalist governments worldwide…
SEATTLE — More than 20,000 Boeing workers, members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, met here at the Mariners Major League Baseball stadium July 17 and voted by over 99% to strike if they don’t have…
It has been three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, banned Militant issue no. 17. The Militant promptly appealed the ban and since then dozens of letters have been sent to the Florida Department of…
