Che: Cuba’s socialist revolution shows way forward for humanity

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Che Guevara, right, in voluntary labor at 1961 Cuban construction site. In 1987, Fidel Castro led revival of Che’s ideas on transforming working people while deepening socialist revolution

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is  Che Guevara Speaks, first published within weeks of his death in combat at the hands of the CIA and U.S.-trained forces in Bolivia in 1967. Che joined the revolutionary movement…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

April 5, 1999 NEW YORK CITY — The daily demonstrations here against the police killing of Amadou Diallo have provoked a crisis for the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Tens of thousands of working people have taken part. Picket lines…


Thomas Sankara: ‘Revolution, women’s liberation go together’

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Thomas Sankara, leader of 1983-87 popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, delivers speech to several thousand women on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987. He explained that “the authenticity and the future of our revolution depends on women.”

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…


Working-class road to women’s emancipation

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

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…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

March 29, 1999 The massive train crash in Illinois that killed 13 people was a disaster that could have been prevented. The main cause of the accident is known: throughout the United States, highway and rail traffic are forced to…


Carl Skoglund: lifelong communist, ‘old guard’ union fighter

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544’s executive board meeting in November 1937. From left, Farrell Dobbs, Grant Dunne, Carl Skoglund, V.R. Dunne, Miles Dunne, Jack Smith, Bill Brown. Skoglund, Cannon said, “played a big role” in victorious 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Speeches for Socialism by James P. Cannon. Below is an excerpt from Cannon’s talk at a January 1961 Los Angeles meeting celebrating the life of Carl Skoglund. Both had been…


SWP program to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

U.S. bosses and their government are fond of telling us that an expanding capitalist economy is like a rising tide, it “lifts all boats.” This flies in the face of what workers experience in real life. “Record profits weren’t enough…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

March 22, 1999 CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors finished presenting their case in the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican independence activist José Solís Jordán here March 8. Solís faces charges in connection with the placing of two bombs outside a military…