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

Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020

Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, released the following call to action April 28. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s candidate for vice president. Tens of millions of workers have been thrown out of work in the U.S., robbed…


Today’s social crisis rooted in decline of capitalism

Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020

Below are interrelated excerpts from “What the 1987 Stock Market Crash Foretold,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution published in New International no. 10. It will help readers of the Militant place today’s economic and social crisis within the longer arc…



First imperialist world war sped Britain’s decline, US rulers rise

Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020
Transit workers march in Manchester, England, during 1926 British general strike. Leon Trotsky explains the rise of “unparalleled class battles” in the U.K. before and after first World War, as British imperialism declined in relation to its rivals in Berlin and especially Washington.

 Where Is Britain Going? by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Trotsky was a central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist International under V.I. Lenin. The book describes how the working…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 18 - May 11, 2020

May 15, 1995 More than 20,000 Cubans detained in concentration camps at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, will be allowed entry into the United States under an agreement recently signed between Washington and Havana. From the beginning the…


SWP: ‘Demand prosecution of cops for cold-blooded killing’

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020
Joel Britton, SWP candidate for Congress, pays respects to Steven Taylor at memorial site set up by his family near Walmart in San Leandro, Calif., Cops gunned him down in store April 18.

The following statement by Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in the 13th District in California, was issued April 20. Britton works at Walmart. All working people should join with the family of Steven Taylor in demanding…


Demand massive gov’t public works program to provide jobs

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party 2020 candidate for president, issued the following fighting program April 22. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s vice presidential candidate. The Socialist Workers Party demands the federal government immediately fund a massive public works program to…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

May 8, 1995 The United States government is using the bombing that killed more than 100 people at the Oklahoma City Federal Building to test the waters for squeezing democratic rights and expanding the use of the death penalty. The…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

On party’s view of pandemic I’ve been reading the Militant for over 15 years. Over those years I’ve disagreed with almost nothing in its pages, but I am not so sure that I’m on board with the views that are…


Che: ‘Cuban Revolution’s first great battle was land reform’

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020
In address to congress of peasants near Rebel Army’s Second Front headquarters in eastern Cuba, Sept. 21, 1958, Raúl Castro explains July 26 Movement’s revolutionary program — taking land out of hands of big landholders and distributing to all those who work it.

Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Argentinian-born Guevara joined and fought alongside Fidel Castro, becoming an outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution that defeated the…