Corrections

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

In the Militant article entitled “Forum protests FBI attacks on constitutional freedoms” in issue no. 22, the sentence accredited to Cynthia Wilson was actually information taken from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department’s practices…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

June 29, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — Hundreds of unionists and others gathered outside of the General Motors Delphi East plant on June 11 to greet some of the 5,800 union members expected to join the strike against the auto giant.…


‘A genuine revolution means leading the millions’

Class struggle in the US today, the Cuban Revolution and building a proletarian party
Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023
April 25 book presentation in Havana at headquarters of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. Inset, from left, Mary-Alice Waters; ICAP leader Noemí Rabaza, who chaired and spoke. In Cuba, Rabaza said, the government represents workers’ class interests not those of the capitalists. “What Noemí says is important,” Waters noted in discussion period. Cuba’s socialist revolution is a beacon worldwide and sets the example for working people in the U.S., too. “Alone we’ll be defeated. Fighting together, we can win,” Waters ended.

  The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Steve Clark and…



Why you should join the SWP campaign

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 31. The Socialist Workers Party’s 2024 campaigns are beginning, with Laura Garza announcing her campaign for U.S. Senate in California at a sizable labor rally in…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

June 15, 1998 Working people everywhere should support the fight by 5,300 transit workers in Philadelphia to push back the city government’s attempt to deal blows to the Transport Workers Union. This fight is another example of the increasing numbers…


Build support for today’s union struggles

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

The following statement was issued May 24 by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey State Senate. Around the country Writers Guild members are striking against bosses’ drive to slash wages and residual payments, and worsen working conditions.…


Correction

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

The article “Conflicts, shifting alliances mark politics in the Middle East” in the May 29 issue of the Militant had a couple of factual errors in the section on Lebanon. It is true, as the article states, that Tehran on…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

June 8, 1998 Striking Russian coal miners in Siberia and the North Caucasus lifted their blockade of the Trans-Siberian railway May 24 after government officials promised to pay overdue wages. Miners in Inta, near the Polar Circle, on strike since…


Nurses in UK fight over pay and conditions in gov’t health system

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

BY ANDRÉS MENDOZA, DAG TIRSÉN AND PAMELA HOLMES LONDON — Thousands of nurses and other health workers took part in a one-day work stoppage at half the hospitals across England May 1, in a long-running dispute with the government over…