Author: Steve Clark

Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over

OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department is another step along the course the Democratic Party has been pressing for seven years of criminalizing political opposition and debate,”…

End of decadeslong retreat of labor opens new opportunities

Oberlin conference will discuss strengthening unions, building Socialist Workers Party

“Our experiences in the United States confirm that the low point of working-class and labor resistance is behind us,” said Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, in his report on the draft political resolution before the party’s…

The compulsory hijab is not a symbol of Iran’s 1979 revolution

Below is an excerpt from an April 2018 article on the social and political roots of protests by workers and youth that swept 90 cities and small towns across Iran. It points to an article that had appeared in the…

Taking the Socialist Workers Party’s program to the toilers

Conference discusses working-class response to capitalist crises, sets party convention

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English, French, and Spanish           “We have an unusual opportunity this year to go straight out of this conference into campaigning and other activity focused on the…

Writer’s life converged with fighters organizing to build a revolutionary workers party in Iran

Reza Baraheni: poet, novelist, champion of cultural and political freedom

Reza Baraheni, a world-renowned leader in the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran, died in Toronto March 24 at age 86. He was among that country’s most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics of the last half century.…

NY event hails Cuban literacy drive, Bay of Pigs victories

NEW YORK — The victory of the Cuban armed forces and volunteer militias against U.S.-trained and -equipped mercenaries at Playa Girón in April 1961 demonstrated “the determination of the Cuban people to defend the socialist revolution, whatever it took,” said…

Islamic State targeted Christians to terrorize and divide Iraq working people

ANKAWA, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — On July 17, 2014, a month after Islamic State’s conquest of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, the terrorist organization ordered “the Evacuation of Christians from the borders of the State of Caliphate no later that…

Kurdistan book fair marked by thirst for political discussion

Event in Erbil reflects Kurds’ fight for homeland and crisis of global imperialist order

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — The 13th Erbil International Book Fair showed expanding space to discuss the broadest questions of world and regional politics here. This openness is a product of the Kurdish people’s fight for their national rights and…

US out of Korea! An unknown history: History of Washington’s intervention in Korea

Militant Supplement on Korea

  The following article was originally published in three parts in the Militant in 2013 on September 23, September 30, and October 7. Part 1: How Korean workers and farmers began resistance to U.S. domination, forced partition of nation This…

Fidel: ‘No one has the right to use nuclear weapons’

“We have never considered the idea of fabricating nuclear weapons, because we don’t need them,” former Cuban President Fidel Castro said in a 2005 book-length interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, published under the title My Life. Castro was rebutting…