To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…
International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world March 8. On this occasion the Militant is printing excerpts from The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leaders Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…
In the largest political protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine since it began over two years ago, thousands gathered for the Moscow funeral of Alexei Navalny March 1. For days after, they…
“The expansionist war of the Russian regime has ruined the lives of millions of Ukrainians, deprived them of their homes and forced them to seek safety and shelter in other regions of Ukraine and beyond its borders,” the Confederation of…
NEW YORK — Sixty people attended a Militant Labor Forum here March 10 to address “The fight against Jew-hatred today. Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews.” Speakers included Columbia University Professor Shai Davidai; Seth Galinsky, a…
The future of humanity depends on building a leadership, a party, that can mobilize the working class in our millions to take state power away from the capitalist rulers and place it into our own hands, to start down the…
LINCOLN, Neb. — The bosses at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway announced Feb. 28 they were furloughing over 360 mechanical and rail-car inspectors, members of the International Association of Machinists and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. These workers inspect,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Several deadly wildfires ripped through the Texas Panhandle leaving more than 10,000 cattle dead and more than 1 million acres of land destroyed, threatening the livelihoods of thousands of working people. There are 4.1 million beef…
Working people in Haiti, where the history of colonial oppression has left it one of the poorest countries in the world, are bearing the brunt of unstable capitalist rule and imperialist interference. A wave of attacks by powerful criminal gangs…
COTTONDALE, Ala. — “Our organizing drive got new impetus from the gains the United Auto Workers made during the strike at John Deere in 2021 and what the UAW accomplished last fall with strikes at the Big Three automakers,” Kirk…
