SWP: ‘All US troops out of Korea! End sanctions against the DPRK!’

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

The following message was sent to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by Steve Clark, writing on behalf of the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists April 13. The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send greetings on the Democratic…


‘Sankara’: a vivid portrayal of Burkina Faso Revolution

London performance depicts how communist leadership of 1983-87 revolution resonates today
Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

Sankara, a play written and directed by Ricky Dujany, 2018, ran at London’s Cockpit Theatre from March 20 to April 14. BY JONATHAN SILBERMAN AND ÖGMUNDUR JÓNSSON LONDON — Our congratulations to Ricky Dujany, who wrote and directed the play…


Defeat of US imperialism at Playa Girón was historic

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

Below is an excerpt from Cuba’s Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80, by Fidel Castro, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. It comes from his speech “Angola: African Girón,” given on April 19, 1976, in commemoration of the 15th…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

April 19, 1993 Abortion rights activists in Florida are responding to the March 10 murder of Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola and a months-long Operation Rescue training camp. The antiabortion “graduation class” is expected to mobilize to shut down area…


Bolshevik Revolution transformed all social relations

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “The Struggle for Cultured Speech,” published in Pravda, May 16, 1923, a chapter in Problems of Everyday Life: Creating the Foundations for a New Society in Revolutionary Russia by Leon Trotsky. The title is one…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

The caption to the picture with the article “Kurds: ‘Atrocities Don’t Kill Our Quest for Freedom’” in the April 9 issue incorrectly identified Muhammad Aziz as the man in the picture. Aziz is not in the picture.


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 14 - April 9, 2018

April 12, 1993 LONDON — Three thousand British workers, one-third of them coal miners, marched and rallied here March 29 to protest pit closures. The demonstration, called by the Trades Union Congress, the British labor federation, coincided with a debate…


Socialist Workers Party in 1950: ‘US out of Korea!’

Vol. 82/No. 14 - April 9, 2018

Below is a July 31, 1950, letter from Socialist Workers Party National Secretary James P. Cannon to President Harry Truman and members of Congress demanding they end the U.S. rulers’ war against the Korean people. It is the first of…


Revolution, counterrevolution and war in Iran

Social and political roots of workers’ protests that swept 90 cities and small towns
Vol. 82/No. 13 - April 2, 2018

The article below corrects the initial weeks of Militant coverage of the large working-class protests that began in Mashhad, Iran, on Dec. 28 and swept some 90 cities and towns across the length and breadth of that country in early…