Dallas rally backs Black dancers fired for forming a union

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024

DALLAS — In 105 degree heat, Dallas Black Dance Theatre performers and 200 of their supporters turned out for a spirited rally and picket in front of One Arts Plaza here Aug. 17. After the dancers voted to join the…


Canadian rail workers fight is a battle for the entire working class

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024
Railworkers picket outside headquarters of Canadian National rail company in Montreal August 22. Workers are fighting for wages, job conditions, safety and livable schedules against bosses, government.

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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


Building Communist League focus of Agnes Sullivan’s life

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

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…


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…