25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

March 31, 1997 The march in Brussels by tens of thousands of workers from across Europe protesting job cuts shows the broad desire among working people to unite internationally to combat the devastation wrought by the capitalist system in its…


Access to the Militant’s unique Ukraine coverage

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to self-determination, a political conquest of the Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution in Lenin’s time that remains decisive to forging working-class unity. Acting on that communist continuity the paper…


Lenin fought for self-determination of oppressed nations, Ukraine

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Working people in Odesa, Ukraine, greet Red Army after 1919 liberation from counterrevolutionary White Army, which attempted to reimpose rule of the landlord and capitalist classes.

As Ukrainian working people defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand, against Moscow’s invasion, this excerpt from Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922-23 is a special feature explaining why communists support Ukrainian independence. The book describes how V.I. Lenin,…



Stalinism bears main responsibility for Hitler’s rise to power

Vol. 86/No. 11 - March 21, 2022
Nazi stormtroopers occupy union offices in Berlin 1933. Stalinist line that Social Democrats were “social fascists,” refusal to collaborate with them in fight against Hitler, allowed fascists to come to power without facing serious working-class combat.

The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is this week’s Books of the Month selection. Written during the heat of battle against the rising Nazi movement in the early 1930s, he explains the counterrevolutionary course…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 11 - March 21, 2022

March 24, 1997 HAVANA — More than 130 people from 55 countries met here for the Second International Coordinating Committee meeting for the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students. The festival, which will be held in Cuba July 28-August…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

March 17, 1997 DES MOINES, Iowa — On February 7 agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested 22 Latino workers at the Swift pork packinghouse in Marshalltown, alleging they were working without visas. The agents were accompanied by Swift…


‘We’ve entered an era of instability, economic crises and wars’

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Children sit on toppled statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Sept. 11, 1991, after Soviet Union shattered. U.S. capitalist rulers thought this meant they won the Cold War, and that would bring global stability under their dominion. That has been proven utterly false.

To help explain what led to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, this special feature has excerpts from “Their Transformation and Ours,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution adopted in 2005 and “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun.” Both articles appear in New…


‘Malcolm X, a revolutionary leader of the US working class’

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022
Malcolm X meets crowd at March 22, 1964, rally in Harlem. After breaking with Nation of Islam, Malcolm emerged as “the face and authentic voice” of the coming American revolution.

To mark the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X on Feb. 21, 1965, this week’s Books of the Month page features Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…