Why the SWP calls for a labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

The impact of today’s economic, social and moral crisis of capitalism on tens of millions poses the need for workers to break from the Democrats and Republicans and all other capitalist parties and build a labor party based on the…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars, freedom of speech and the press are stepping up efforts to urge Florida prison officials to reverse their ban of Militant issue no. 17 at the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. Letters…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

June 14, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “We’re not veterans — we’re combatants,” Brig. Gen. Gustavo Chui affirmed. “As members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, we’re engaged in the day-to-day struggle for the unconditional defense of our…


Richter: ‘Glencoe native running for vice president’

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Dennis Richter by Owen Elle, editor of the weekly McLeod County Chronicle published in Minnesota. The article ran on the front page May 24. Glencoe native Dennis Richter is running as…


Rail worker endorses Rachele Fruit for president

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

As a Militant reader for some time, I’ve been following the campaign of Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president. I endorse her campaign and make a contribution because I agree with her campaign that all working people need our own…


Fruit joins campaigning, fight for ballot status in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rachele Fruit and Socialist Workers Party campaign supporters spent three days here May 20-22 campaigning and petitioning to put the party on the ballot in Tennessee. They collected 104 signatures toward the 375 required, won five endorsers…


Constitutional freedoms are fruit of hard-fought political struggle

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Michael Cohen testifies May 13 in New York courtroom, with prosecutor Alvin Bragg, left, and Donald Trump before Judge Juan Merchan, who imposed gag order on Trump. Biden administration uses courts to try to prevent former president from running, attacks political rights.

Driven by anti-Trump hysteria, the Joseph Biden White House and Democratic prosecutors are using the courts to try to frame up and drive their main opponent for the presidency out of politics. In doing so, they’re dealing serious blows to…


Ukrainian forces beat back new Moscow attack against Kharkiv

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Facing a new cross-border surge by Moscow’s army in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, the country’s tenacious defenders have pushed the invading forces back. Ukrainian forces have recaptured lost ground in border towns through intense street fighting against Russian…



Imperialist war deepens political crises, revolutionary prospects

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Meeting of 800 demanding release of 18 members of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters union, who were framed up and imprisoned in 1944-45 for opposing imperialist rulers’ war drive.

The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. In his Oct. 2, 1942, report, “The workers and the Second World War,” excerpted…