All out for Asarco strike rally Nov. 18!

Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019

If there’s any way you can swing it, the Militant urges readers to join the Asarco copper strikers’ rally in Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 18! Their fight in Arizona and Texas deserves support and solidarity from working people everywhere. Speak out…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019

November 28, 1994 The trial of Canadian Auto Workers member Roger Warren on nine counts of murder is being exposed as a frame-up, even as the government presses forward with its case. One of the prosecution’s main witnesses, Royal Canadian…


Correction on George Johnson

Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019

I am writing to correct errors in the letter I wrote on George Johnson’s life that appeared in the Nov. 18 issue of the paper. George Johnson was 83 years when he passed, not 82. He was a member of…


‘Communism is not a doctrine, but a movement’

Vol. 83/No. 42 - November 18, 2019
Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin, left, speaking in Moscow in 1920 and Fidel Castro, right, addressing mass rally in Havana in 1962. Russian and Cuban Revolutions, two great proletarian revolutions of the 20th century, made key contributions to the development of internationalist working-class program and strategy.

Their Trotsky and Ours by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Based on his 1982 speech, it explains that to lead a successful working-class revolution, a mass…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 42 - November 18, 2019

November 21, 1994 DECATUR, Illinois — When Janey McKinney’s husband was locked out by A.E. Staley, a major producer of corn sweeteners, in June 1993, she said she had two choices: “Either lie down and get walked on or stand…


Letters

Vol. 83/No. 42 - November 18, 2019

George Johnson George Johnson, a former member and longtime supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died after a long illness in Bend, Oregon, Oct. 15. He was 82.  Johnson served in the Army, stationed in South Korea in the late…


‘Break from bosses 2-party system, build a labor party’

Vol. 83/No. 42 - November 18, 2019

The following is a Nov. 6 statement by Malcolm Jarrett, who ran as the Socialist Workers Party 2019 candidate for Pittsburgh City Council. The capitalist rulers use their two-party shell game to try and get working people caught up chasing…