SWP kicks off ballot drive in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

UNION CITY, N.J. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign will kick off a statewide effort April 1 to put the party’s presidential candidate Rachele Fruit on the New Jersey ballot, along with her running mate, vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe.…


Union protests worker’s death in Australian gold mine

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

SYDNEY — A roof collapse at the Ballarat Gold Mine, owned by Victory Minerals, in central Victoria March 13 killed miner Kurt Hourigan and critically injured 21-year-old Connor Smith. Hourigan lived in Bruthen, a small town more than five hours…


Luxemburg, Liebknecht: martyrs of the revolutionary movement

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024
Revolutionary internationalist leaders Rosa Luxemburg, inset, speaking in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907 and Karl Liebknecht, speaking in Berlin in 1918. The two revolutionaries, jailed by the German government for opposing imperialist war, hailed victory of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Portraits, Political and Personal by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Trotsky was a central leader of the October 1917 Russian Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and fought the overturn of its proletarian internationalist…


For workers’ solidarity, amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

The news is full of clashes over immigration policy between capitalist presidential candidates Joseph Biden, Donald Trump and now Robert Kennedy Jr. These conflicts obscure the fact that the fundamental division on this question is between the two contending classes,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

April 12, 1999 ATLANTA — Cuban youth leaders Luis Ernesto Morejón and Itamys García Villar spoke to some 325 students, farmers, and workers during their visit to Georgia. This was the youths’ first stop on a seven-city tour. Both are…


Correction

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

A sentence in the article “Roots of advances for Cuban women are in our revolution,” in Militant issue no. 13 got garbled. It should have read, “The panelists addressed other social questions that affect women.”




Grocery workers in California launch fight for equal pay

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
United Food and Commercial Workers union members at Food 4 Less grocery in Baldwin Park, California, and their supporters rally March 7 in fight for pay raise, safe working conditions

BALDWIN PARK, Calif. — “We’re here fighting for a better wage and for equity with our brothers and sisters at other groceries,” Irma Vega, who has worked for Food 4 Less grocery for 24 years, told the Militant  March 7.…


Fruit campaign takes SWP program to working class

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Pamela Holmes, right, Communist League parliamentary candidate for Tottenham, campaigns at March 17 protest by Russians in London against Vladimir Putin, his invasion of Ukraine.

Across the country, supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for president, are widely circulating the Militant carrying her working-class program. They’re discussing it with workers on their doorsteps, at plant gates, actions against Jew-hatred, in protests…