The crisis of the capitalist rulers is visited on working people

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

The Spanish edition of  Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The book explains the economic and political…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

January 8, 1996 LAWRENCE, Massachusetts — “Everyone knew it was a time bomb waiting to go off,” Pedro Bares, a production worker from the apparel division, described the fire that consumed the Malden Mills textile plant December 11. Thirty workers…


Workers and farmers need to chart our own road forward

Vol. 84/No. 51 - December 28, 2020
Hundreds of vehicles lined up outside Roadrunner Food Bank in Albuquerque Nov. 24 to get food for Thanksgiving.

Workers and our unions need to raise the banner of fighting to shorten the workweek to 30 hours without a single penny cut from take-home pay. This can prevent layoffs and keep millions of fellow workers on the job. Winning…


Holiday greetings to workers behind bars

Vol. 84/No. 51 - December 28, 2020

The Militant  sends holiday greetings to fellow workers behind bars! We will continue to tell the truth about the conditions you face and to fight to ensure you can receive our paper and news about the struggles of working people…


Teamsters show ‘with proper leadership, workers can overcome’

Vol. 84/No. 51 - December 28, 2020
In May 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters rout cops, special deputies from bosses’ Citizens Alliance that were sent to break their strike. Class-conscious leaders organized workers defense to win.

Teamster Bureaucracy, by Farrell Dobbs, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It is the last in a four-volume series on how a class-struggle union was forged in Minneapolis and across the Midwest trucking industry in the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 51 - December 28, 2020

December 25, 1995 Washington has launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to justify the drive toward war in Yugoslavia. President Bill Clinton set the tone in a December 2 address to thousands of U.S. troops, who were headed for Bosnia. “There…


‘Militant’ holiday schedule

Vol. 84/No. 50 - December 21, 2020

The ‘Militant’ will be taking a break Dec. 25-Jan 2. Issue no. 1 in 2021 will be mailed out Dec. 24. The following issue will be sent out Jan. 7.


Demand jobs, gov’t-funded lifelong health care for all

Vol. 84/No. 50 - December 21, 2020

From farmers in India to workers fighting Remington bosses in Ilion, New York, working people are finding ways to stand up to the determined moves by the bosses to use government-imposed lockdowns to slash jobs and push more of the…


‘Decisive battles for future of humanity will be fought in the US’

Vol. 84/No. 50 - December 21, 2020

The Struggle for Socialism in the “American Century”: Writings and Speeches, 1945-47 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. In the face of the U.S. rulers’ swaggering claim to global domination following their…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 50 - December 21, 2020

December 25, 1995 PARIS — Sixteen days into the national rail strike nothing is moving. Hundreds of thousands of phone and power workers, subway and bus workers, municipal workers, teachers, hospital and other government workers, as well as students, have…