February 28, 2000 HAVANA — “We are here because we have no choice but to learn how to fight, and we want to learn from those who know how to fight,” Eddie Slaughter told an official of the Cuban small…
“We can win working people to get behind the fight for a society where all workers in the U.S. are welcome and join together to defend our class interests against capitalist exploitation,” Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…
For the 60th commemoration of the assassination of Malcolm X, Feb. 21, 1965, the Militant is featuring a selection from Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party.…
Despite the unstable ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon the key questions — Israel’s dismantling of Hamas so it cannot carry out more bloody pogroms against Jews, as well as Israel preventing Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — remain unresolved. This…
February 24 marks the opening of the fourth year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against the people of Ukraine. Ten days before, a drone strike, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…
Issue no. 2 of the Militant, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been banned at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. A letter sent to the paper from a subscriber there said it “was impounded for no reason.” He attached…
The increasingly unstable character of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was highlighted Feb. 10 when Hamas announced it was putting off release of three Israeli hostages set for Feb. 15 “until further notice.” This underscores why the…
Spirited picket lines are up at 79 King Soopers grocery stores in Colorado after 10,000 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, walked off the job Feb. 6 and 7. The chain, owned by Kroger, is the…
LINCOLN, Neb. — The rail bosses and the wealthy capitalist investors that share in the profits from their operations are determined to keep raking in money off the back of rail workers. Over the last four decades, they have pursued…
