Imperialist war deepens political crises, revolutionary prospects

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Meeting of 800 demanding release of 18 members of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters union, who were framed up and imprisoned in 1944-45 for opposing imperialist rulers’ war drive.

The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. In his Oct. 2, 1942, report, “The workers and the Second World War,” excerpted…


FBI is the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Below is an excerpt from the Socialist Workers Party 2022 Political Resolution, printed in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. It describes the consolidation of the FBI as the rulers’ main…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

June 14, 1999 President William Clinton and NATO commanders are continuing their brutal assault on the working class of Yugoslavia. We urge our readers to join in actions demanding an immediate halt to the bombing and the removal of all…


Join fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Prison officials in Florida have banned an issue of the Militant in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. Aided by the Militant’s attorney, David Goldstein, we are fighting to…


Welcome to new readers from the ‘Militant’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Welcome to the 1,355 new and renewing readers to the Militant! We work hard to bring you news, political analysis and lessons from the continuity of the working-class movement every week, to chart a course toward workers organizing in our…


‘Workers need our own party,’ Fruit tells ‘Jewish Times’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

The following is an excerpt from an interview with SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit by Jillian Diamond that appeared in the Baltimore Jewish Times online May 17. It is slated to appear in the next print edition. BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES:…


‘The SWP is unalterably opposed to all imperialist wars’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Revolutionary leaders of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544-CIO were sentenced to prison during World War II for leading opposition in labor movement to Washington’s drive to enter imperialist slaughter to win markets and power. Using Militant, pamphlets and Industrial Organizer, they won working-class support, defense of political rights.

Socialism on Trial, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May, contains the testimony of James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party and then its national secretary, at the 1941 trial of 18 leaders of…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

June 7, 1999 PASCAGOULA, Miss. — “Good news to Newport News, Ingalls workers want money too!” declares a picket sign at the main gate of Ingalls Shipbuilding in this Gulf Coast town. With 11,500 workers, it’s Mississippi’s largest private employer.…


As we go to press:

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

Washington state officials have informed the Socialist Workers Party that Henry Dennison, its candidate for U.S. Senate, is on the ballot!


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

May 31, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “On May 17, 1959, we crossed the Rubicon,” stated Cuban president Fidel Castro at a rally here celebrating the adoption, exactly 40 years ago, of a land reform law, one of the first —…