On Jan. 14, President Joseph Biden filed a “Certificate of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.” It stated, “The Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period” and…
Prison authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona — banned the Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the Militant. The Militant is appealing the ruling, asking supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ political…
China’s state capitalist rulers are suffering through a yearslong slowdown in economic growth, at the same time that they confront mounting competition with rival capitalist powers, above all, Washington. As economic conditions worsen, millions of working people in China are…
MIAMI — Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are discussing a tentative contract agreement reached Jan. 8 between the union and East and Gulf Coast port bosses, following negotiations. Dockworkers are voting on the contract as the Militant goes to…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing for his regime to benefit the most from the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria, calling it “a historic window of opportunity.” Erdogan is also urging the more than 3 million…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
CHICAGO — The 67th annual meeting of the African Studies Association here brought together over 1,600 academics, authors and others Dec. 12-14. Many participants came from Africa. Over 350 panel discussions covered politics, economic underdevelopment and other topics. An exhibition…
