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Campaign to expand reach of Militant,’ books, fund April 6 – May 28 (week two)

Defend a woman’s right to abortion!

The following statement was released April 17 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas.  Supporters of women’s rights must condemn the attempt by Texas legislators to use the failed Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act to…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 2, 1994 DES MOINES, Iowa — More than 100 farmers and their supporters protested at the capital building here April 11 as the legislature discussed contract hog farming. This issue has come to the fore as an increasing number…

New battalions of working-class fighters in formation in China

The Book of the Month this week is Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The excerpt below, from “Youth and the Communist Movement,” foresaw much of the way…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund (week one)

March May 1 for driver’s licenses, amnesty!

The following statement was issued April 8 by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey State Assembly. The immigration raid in Allen, Texas, April 3 was aimed at intimidating all “unauthorized” immigrants in the U.S. The raids and…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

April 25, 1994 For the first time since World War II, Washington is carrying out direct military intervention in a war in Europe. The bombing of sites near Gorazde, Bosnia, came just weeks after U.S. planes shot down four jets…

Fidel: ‘Without Che’s ideas, communism can’t be built’

The excerpt below is from Socialism and Man in Cuba by Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. The French edition is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The piece is from “Che’s Ideas Are Absolutely Relevant Today,”…

End solitary confinement! Voting rights for ex-prisoners!

The following statement was released April 3 by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Public Advocate.  The capitalist rulers’ so-called criminal justice system and its prisons have absolutely nothing to do with “rehabilitation.” They have everything…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

April 18, 1994 Battle lines were drawn one minute past midnight April 6 across the United States as more than 75,000 Teamsters left trucks, loading docks, mechanical shops and offices for picket duty when a five-day extension of their national…