Thomas Sankara: ‘Revolution, women’s liberation go together’

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Thomas Sankara, leader of 1983-87 popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, giving “The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women” speech, March 8, 1987.

To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…


Working-class road to women’s emancipation

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world March 8. On this occasion the Militant is printing excerpts from The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leaders Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…


Forum in New Jersey takes up Ukraine fight for sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Tens of thousands at Alexei Navalny’s March 1 funeral in Moscow march to cemetery, chant “No to war!” and “Russia will be free!” It was the largest protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin since he launched his invasion of Ukraine two years ago

UNION CITY, N.J. — “Look at the pictures of tens of thousands of people chanting slogans at the funeral for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny,” John Studer, editor of the Militant, told a Militant Labor Forum here March 2. That’s…




Patients die as ‘private equity’ hospital bosses rake in profits

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Sungida Rashid gave birth at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, above, last October, but began bleeding. Machine that could have saved her had been repossessed as bosses hadn’t paid for it. The center is run by Steward, largest private, for-profit hospital system in U.S.

The joy felt by Sungida Rashid and her husband, Nabil Haque, a couple who had just become new parents, was short-lived. Within hours of giving birth to a daughter at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center last October, Rashid began bleeding.…



Greek farmers protest low prices, gov’t regulations

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

ATHENS, Greece — Over 6,000 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Greek parliament here Feb. 20. Working people lined the sidewalk clapping and raising clenched fists as nearly 200 tractors caravanned into the city center. The tractorcade was joined…


Canada gov’t mounts new attack on political rights

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Canadian riot police use pepper spray against truckers, other protesters in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2022. Despite Emer-gencies Act being recently ruled illegal by federal judge, Justin Trudeau government is pressing new attack on political rights, the Online Harms Act.

MONTREAL — In a major new attack on the right to free speech, Canada’s Liberal Party government has introduced Bill 63 — the Online Harms Act. It is sweeping legislation to strengthen existing “anti-hate laws” and impose government censorship over…


Idaho prisoner faced botched execution, fights new attempts

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Thomas Creech, center, at clemency hearing before the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Paroles Jan. 19 with his lawyer, left. Prison authorities tried for an hour to execute him Feb. 28.

In an hourlong botched execution Feb. 28, prison authorities at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution failed to find a vein to kill Thomas Creech by lethal injection. The 73 year old was stabbed eight times but the executioners were unable…