25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

July 26, 1993 Working people should demand Congress reverse its June 30 vote upholding the Hyde amendment, which bans federal funds for abortions. It denies millions of women — mainly working-class women — their right to decide when and whether…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

The article “Rail Bosses Press for Longer Freight Trains, Less Workers,” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said 72 people died in the Lac-Mégantic disaster. It was 47.


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018

July 12, 1993 The thousands of supporters of abortion rights now preparing for battle with Operation Rescue in Minnesota, Ohio, Florida, and other states are setting an example that should be emulated by working people everywhere. Operation Rescue is targeting…


The class-struggle road for workers to win political power

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018
Truckers sign up by the hundreds for Teamsters union during over-the-road organizing campaign, June 1937. “As significant forces are set into motion,” writes Socialist Workers Party and union leader Farrell Dobbs, “increasingly sharp clashes with the bosses result, during which the workers begin to shed class-collaborationist illusions and acquire class-struggle concepts.”

Below is an excerpt from the “Afterword” to the new, enhanced edition of  Teamster Bureaucracy, the last of four books by Farrell Dobbs on how Socialist Workers Party members and other militant workers engaged in a series of strike battles…


Crisis in Puerto Rico caused by colonial control, capitalist rule

Vol. 82/No. 25 - July 9, 2018
Right, John Studer, Socialist Workers Party, addresses U.N. decolonization committee June 18 in support of fight to end U.S. colonial rule. Left, Myrna Pagán from Vieques Lives Matter.

The following is the statement by John Studer, editor of the Militant newspaper, given on behalf of the Socialist Workers Party at the June 18 U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization hearing. Distinguished Chairman and committee members, Dear friends and fellow…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 25 - July 9, 2018

July 12, 1993 On June 21 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Clinton administration’s policy of stopping in international waters Haitians fleeing military repression and forcibly returning them to Haiti without even permitting an asylum hearing. “This is a crime,”…


SWP: Back Puerto Ricans’ fight for self-determination

Vol. 82/No. 24 - June 18, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Declaration of Principles,” printed in  The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39. Copyright © 1982 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. United States imperialism, exploiting the masses within its national boundaries, at…


In defense of the US working class

SWP leader at Havana event answers question: ‘Can working people in US make a socialist revolution?’
Vol. 82/No. 23 - June 11, 2018
Striking teachers at West Virginia Capitol in Charleston, Feb. 26, 2018, as one of most significant labor battles in U.S. in decades exploded. Teachers and other school workers went on strike statewide, winning support from students, parents, churches and other unions. Strikes and protests spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina. “What happened there is a living refutation of the portrait of working-class bigotry and ‘backwardness’ painted by middle class liberals and much of the radical left,” says Socialist Workers Party leader Mary-Alice Waters.

The following is the talk by Mary-Alice Waters to a conference organized by the Cuban Institute of History and the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) in Havana, Cuba. Waters is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist…


How US working people have fought back

Vol. 82/No. 23 - June 11, 2018

“From Clinton to Trump: How US working people are responding to the antilabor offensive of the bosses, their parties and their government” was the title of the second part of the program on the class struggle in the US at…