SWP kicks off ballot drive in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

UNION CITY, N.J. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign will kick off a statewide effort April 1 to put the party’s presidential candidate Rachele Fruit on the New Jersey ballot, along with her running mate, vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe.…


Union protests worker’s death in Australian gold mine

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

SYDNEY — A roof collapse at the Ballarat Gold Mine, owned by Victory Minerals, in central Victoria March 13 killed miner Kurt Hourigan and critically injured 21-year-old Connor Smith. Hourigan lived in Bruthen, a small town more than five hours…


Luxemburg, Liebknecht: martyrs of the revolutionary movement

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024
Revolutionary internationalist leaders Rosa Luxemburg, inset, speaking in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907 and Karl Liebknecht, speaking in Berlin in 1918. The two revolutionaries, jailed by the German government for opposing imperialist war, hailed victory of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Portraits, Political and Personal by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Trotsky was a central leader of the October 1917 Russian Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and fought the overturn of its proletarian internationalist…


For workers’ solidarity, amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

The news is full of clashes over immigration policy between capitalist presidential candidates Joseph Biden, Donald Trump and now Robert Kennedy Jr. These conflicts obscure the fact that the fundamental division on this question is between the two contending classes,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

April 12, 1999 ATLANTA — Cuban youth leaders Luis Ernesto Morejón and Itamys García Villar spoke to some 325 students, farmers, and workers during their visit to Georgia. This was the youths’ first stop on a seven-city tour. Both are…



Correction

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

A sentence in the article “Roots of advances for Cuban women are in our revolution,” in Militant issue no. 13 got garbled. It should have read, “The panelists addressed other social questions that affect women.”


SWP takes Fruit campaign to workers across the US

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

Supporters of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, are taking the party’s campaign to workers on their doorsteps, at union rallies and actions called to fight Jew-hatred. The campaign gets a hearing as working people face economic…



Biden says the economy’s great, workers face a different reality

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

President Joseph Biden and his liberal media “spin doctors,” desperate for ways to boost his lagging reelection campaign, are working overtime to pitch the U.S. economy in the most positive light. They insist inflation is falling, and job openings increasing…