Joining the full-time Militant writing staff is Vivian Sahner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Sahner was the 2021 SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey while part of the party’s national trade…
As the nearly yearlong invasion of Ukraine by Moscow continues, rising tensions between Serbia, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Kosovo could lead to new fighting in the Balkans. The attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to stamp out…
“Puerto Rico has always had activities in solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban Revolution,” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, told the Militant Jan. 2. “It’s our right to travel there.” That’s why the committee…
LOS ANGELES — Some 36,000 University of California graduate student workers across the state organized by the United Auto Workers ratified a new union contract Dec. 23, ending their strike. It was the nation’s largest strike to date of academic…
MILLSBORO, Del. — In a statement printed in the Jan. 2 Militant, Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Chicago mayor, points to the need for conditions that allow young workers to begin families, including affordable housing. This is an…
The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The term “fascist” is falsely used by liberals and the middle-class left today as an anti-working-class epithet. Trotsky…
January 19, 1998 PARIS — Three thousand people marched here January 7 demanding government relief for unemployed workers. Some of the demonstrators carried signs reading “jobs!” Workers have been occupying 26 unemployment offices throughout France with the protests spreading rapidly.…
The capitalist rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran are divided on how to face continuing challenges to their regime. Neither their slanders of anti-government protesters as dupes of U.S. imperialism, or of the “Zionist” Israeli government, nor their brutal…
George Bryant From his early 20s, to his death on Dec. 26 at 91 years old in a Wallaceburg, Ontario, nursing home, George Bryant was a supporter of the international communist movement and the Cuban Revolution. In the late 1950s,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Three years after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her own home, police officer Aaron Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison. He will have…
