Correction

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021

The article in the Nov. 22 Militant titled, “What Do the 2021 Election Results Mean for the US Working Class?” should have quoted James Carville as saying, “I mean, this ‘defund the police’ lunacy.”


We need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers…



Socialist revolution in Russia set out to emancipate women

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Women at literacy class after triumph of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. “Social construction,” Leon Trotsky writes, must improve “the position of mother and child.” Without child care, health care, culture reaching women, including in the countryside, “socialism is unthinkable.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Trotsky describes how under the leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party workers and peasants fought to defend their revolution and to transform…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

November 25, 1996 Class-conscious fighters around the world should loudly protest the imminent imperialist intervention in Central Africa. Using the pretext of a “humanitarian mission” to save refugees and the fig leaf of the United Nations, Paris, at first, and…


Correction

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

The photo caption on the Kaiser workers’ protest in issue no. 42 should have identified Jenny Wong Swanson as a shop steward in the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.


How the program of the Bolshevik Revolution took root in the US

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Meeting of factory committee during 1917 Russian Revolution. The victory of the Bolshevik-led socialist revolution inspired millions to build communist parties worldwide, including in U.S. Workers founded party here with “perspective of revolution in this country,” said James P. Cannon.

The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia inspired revolutionary-minded workers worldwide. Cannon, one of many won…


Defend the right to strike, picket!

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, Nov. 3. The court order banning picketing and all union activity within 300 yards of entrances to Warrior Met coal operations in Alabama is an assault on striking United…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

November 18, 1996 In a victory for women’s rights, on October 30, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill allowing women to choose abortion on demand, at state expense, up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, and later under certain…