November 1, 1993 Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, recently surveyed more than 1,100 farm families in the state and identified close to a quarter as being in severe financial condition. One of the “luxuries” to go is health insurance.…
The following statement was released Oct. 10 by Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California. “I’m not the immigration police,” the head of the Carpenters union recently told the press. The union doesn’t ask painters where…
The French-language edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the 1983-87 popular democratic revolution in the West African country of…
October 25, 1993 Armed rightist thugs with full backing of the country’s military, have stepped up their violent attacks aimed at preventing Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to power. Washington claims that its contribution of 600 soldiers, as part…
Their morals and ours Thank you for the story, “Bosses Refuse Help from Locked-Out Unionists in Mass. Gas Explosions,” in the Oct. 8 issue. This is an example of why capitalists have no moral right to rule society. In 2012,…
In the article “‘Anti-Gentrification Fight’ is Pretext for Attack on Art, Culture that Workers Need” in the Oct. 15 issue, Ellie Garcia was misidentified as a rail worker. She is an aerospace worker. The author, Laura Garza, is a rail…
Dear Militant readers, I invite all Militant readers and supporters to join the Socialist Workers Party in an expanded campaign to advance the central political activity of the party — presenting the SWP’s program and activities to workers on their…
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Guevara, at Fidel Castro’s side, became one of the central leaders of the world-changing 1959 Cuban Revolution. He describes…
October 18, 1993 Dealing another blow to the myth of “humanitarian” intervention, President Bill Clinton has significantly expanded U.S. forces and armor in Somalia. The battle in the streets of Mogadishu, in which hundreds of Somalis were killed and wounded…
Below is the Nov. 29, 1910, article by V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik proletarian revolution in Russia. It’s entitled “An Appraisal of Leo Tolstoy,” one of the great Russian writers in the dying days of czarist…
