January 24, 2000 BIRMINGHAM — “Farmers want to go to Atlanta because they haven’t received any debt relief or money, or have been outright turned down. They want justice,” said David Howard, a cotton and soy bean farmer from Mississippi,…
Protesters demanding a new presidential election continue to take to the streets in Georgia. The actions began Nov. 28 after the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream party government announced plans to shelve talks on joining the European Union until at least 2028.…
PERRYVILLE, Md. — Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge I-460 have been on strike at the IKEA distribution center here since Nov. 15. Nearly 320 IAM members work at the warehouse, which distributes furniture…
LOS ANGELES — Despite the catastrophic fires burning across the area, the Militant Labor Forum here held a special meeting Jan. 10, celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. “The wildfires raging through the Los Angeles area are a…
Socialist Workers Party members, and members of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, are using the Militant to discuss with working people the big political questions facing our class worldwide. They are taking the paper to…
President-elect Donald Trump has announced he intends to pursue gaining control over Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal, to advance the interests of the U.S. ruling class against its competitors abroad, especially Beijing and Moscow. Since Russian President Vladimir…
LOS ANGELES — Over the last week, catastrophic fires have engulfed large areas of Los Angeles County. As of Jan. 14, at least 25 people have been killed and nearly 180,000 forced from their homes. Intense Santa Ana winds continue…
Two inmates on death row at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, Len Davis and Shannon Agofsky, have refused to agree to commutations issued Dec. 23 by President Joseph Biden. The outgoing president had reclassified the sentences for 37…
The Socialist Workers Party is running Eric Simpson for mayor of Oakland, and the party will be announcing candidates across the country in coming weeks. Join in campaigning for the only party that is rooted in the working class and…
Letters from Prison by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. In 1944 during World War II, Cannon and 17 other leaders of the SWP and…
