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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund April 4 – June 2 (week six)

Fight for gov’t-funded public works program to create jobs

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party 2020 candidate for president, issued the following statement May 13. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s candidate for vice president. Growing numbers of workers, farmers and small-business people are taking to the streets and fighting…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund April 4 – June 2 (week five)

How the Teamsters union organized owner-drivers in 1930s

Beginning May 1, hundreds of truckers in their rigs converged on Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago to fight to defend their livelihoods. As part of discussions about how to organize owner-operators alongside fleet drivers to fight the bosses and…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 29, 1995 Hundreds of thousands of workers across South Africa joined demonstrations during a national day of mourning May 17 to commemorate the May 10 disaster at Anglo-American Corp.’s Vaal Reefs mine, in which 105 gold miners were killed.…

Demand gov’t-funded public works program to create jobs

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party 2020 candidate for president, issued the following statement May 6. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s vice presidential candidate. Working people are finding ways to unite and fight the rulers’ assaults on our jobs, wages…

‘Militant’ extends drive for readers, to spread the word about workers’ struggles

FROM JOHN STUDER, EDITOR OF THE MILITANT The Militant is extending the paper’s drive to expand the number of working people getting subscriptions, reading books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionists, and contributing to the Militant Fighting Fund…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund (week four)

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 22, 1995 The advances being made today in the fight for Irish self-determination give working people and defenders of democratic rights around the world cause to celebrate and get involved. Those who want to put an end to centuries…

The FBI: The political police of the US capitalist class

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May is 50 Years of Covert Operations in the U.S. by Larry Seigle. It also includes “Imperialist War and the Working Class” by Farrell Dobbs, who was a central leader of the…