Below is an excerpt from “The Crisis Facing Working Farmers” by Doug Jenness. It helps shine a light on how the workings of capitalism weigh on the ability of farmers and their families to get by today. It appears in…
The excerpt below is from the chapter “Origins of FBI Assault on Socialist Workers Party” by Larry Seigle in 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class, one of Pathfinder’s Books of…
The following statement was released March 6 by Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, as they joined solidarity actions with members of the United Electrical Workers union…
March 21, 1994 The decision to devalue the African franc brought millions of working people closer to the knife’s edge of survival. The governments of the African Financial Community ostensibly made the choice. But in reality the deed was done…
Prisoners need right to vote Create a movement that will push for a bill in Congress that will allow all state and federal inmates the right to vote. This will change the paradigm on all elections for all the people.…
March 14, 1994 SYDNEY, Australia — Five hundred dock workers, members of the Maritime Union of Australia, walked off the job February 10 at the two Sydney port operations of Australian Stevedores. They struck to oppose the forced redundancies (permanent…
Below are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at the presentations of Teamster Bureaucracy and In Defense of the US Working Class at the Havana International Book Fair Feb. 14. Copyright © by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. BY MARY-ALICE WATERS…
The excerpt below is from “The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class,” a resolution adopted by the Socialist Workers Party and published in New International no. 14. The Militant is printing it as part of addressing the…
March 7, 1994 Some 3,700 workers across South Africa won their one-month strike against Amalgamated Beverage Industries (ABI), a franchise of U.S. soft drink giant Coca-Cola. The 2,500 members of the Food and Allied Workers Union and 1,200 nonunion employees…
Printed below are two excerpts that give a picture of the workers and farmers government that emerged from the revolution in Algeria that in 1962 overthrew French colonial rule, its impact in France and the U.S., and its leaders’ shoulder-to-shoulder…
