With this issue of the Militant, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 21, 1974, death of James P. Cannon, a decadeslong communist leader and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers Party, the party’s first national secretary…
SYDNEY — Agnes Sullivan, a member of the Communist League in New Zealand for four decades, died in Christchurch there in June. She was 91. “Agnes met the party when she was in her 50s,” Janet Roth, a leader of…
This year marks the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — one of the first and the largest act of armed resistance against the Nazi Holocaust to exterminate the Jews. A year later in August 1944, Polish workers rose…
“Don’t confuse the Putin regime with Russia; they are not the same,” newly released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza said in Bonn, Germany, Aug. 2. Not differentiating between the government in Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine and the Russian…
To help mark the anniversary of July 26, 1953, the opening of the Cuban Revolution, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution — From Santiago de…
From longshoremen in the U.S. to rail workers in Canada, hotel workers in Los Angeles to park workers in Minneapolis, flight attendants who’ve gone years without a new contract to independent truckers hit by rising costs, more and more working…
While preparing to defend Jews and all Israelis from new attacks threatened by Tehran and its “axis of resistance,” Israeli troops continue to deal blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The destruction of Tehran-backed Hamas’ command structures…
SYDNEY — A major union-busting attack on the national construction workers union is underway here, with Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt announcing Aug. 9 he plans to rush through a threatened new law to impose government “administration” on the union.…
“We’re going out. Oct. 1 we’re going out, they’re not talking,” Anthony Bailey, a longshore worker, told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, outside the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall in Miami Aug. 11. Some…
MONTREAL — The Canadian Industrial Relations Board Aug. 9 finally lifted its three-month-long suspension of the right to a work stoppage by either the Teamsters union or the rail bosses, saying it posed “no immediate and serious danger” to public…
