May Day points the way forward

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

The Militant salutes the millions of workers who took to the streets on May Day around the world. International Workers Day was born May 1, 1886, when working people and our unions in the U.S. launched a fight for the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

May 19, 1997 HAVANA — Cubans poured into the streets leading to Revolution Plaza here on May Day. About 1.3 million demonstrated in Havana. Altogether, several million people turned out across the nation, in one of the largest mobilizations here…


Get and read ‘Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity’

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Capitalism has produced many things, good and bad, in the course of its evolution. The most vital of all the social forces it has created is the working class. Above, workers at Putilov locomotive factory in Petrograd, Russia, meet in July 1920 to elect deputies to city’s soviet.

Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History by Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, George Novack and Mary-Alice Waters; 177 pages, Pathfinder Press, 2021. BY BETSEY STONE Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View…



Cuban working people defend socialist revolution at Bay of Pigs

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022
Celebrating defeat of Washington’s Bay of Pigs invasion by 1,500 U.S.-organized mercenaries, April 1961, Cuban militiamen pose with wreckage of downed U.S. plane in fake Cuban colors. Fidel Castro said U.S. imperialists couldn’t forgive the workers and peasants of Cuba for “making a socialist revolution right under their very nose.”

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is being featured this week to mark the 61st anniversary of this historic event. In under 72 hours, April 17-20, 1961, Cuba’s…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

May 12, 1997 DETROIT — As 1,800 members of United Auto Workers Local 51 head into their third week on strike against the third largest U.S. automaker, talks between the union and Chrysler remain deadlocked. So far the strike by…


Letters

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

Brian Oreggio Brian Oreggio, a longtime reader of the Militant in Manchester, died at age 60, April 12, after a long illness. Oreggio joined with co-workers who are members of the Communist League at Tulip Meats factory here in union…


Join SWP campaigning at May Day actions

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates for public office invite you to join us and thousands of other working people and youth at International Workers Day actions May 1. May Day — which was revived in the U.S. in…



George Novack: SWP leader, defender of political rights

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
George Novack, left, led many successful defense campaigns over decades. Above, Novack with James Kutcher, the “legless veteran,” sacked from federal job in 1948 for being SWP member.

When Socialist Workers Party leader George Novack joined in initiating the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in 1973, he brought along decades of leadership experience in revolutionary working-class politics and defense campaigns. In the 1940s he…