WASHINGTON — Several thousand people rallied here Feb. 11, part of an international day of action to protest the ongoing repression by the reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran. Participants came from across the East Coast and from as far away…
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Guevara, at Fidel Castro’s side, became one of the central leaders of the world-changing 1959 Cuban Revolution. He describes…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is launching a large-scale new assault in the east of Ukraine on the one-year anniversary of his regime’s invasion. Despite suffering multiple battlefield defeats at the hands of Ukraine’s military and its many working-class volunteer fighters,…
March 2, 1998 William Jefferson Clinton, in his second inaugural speech proclaimed the United States “the world’s indispensable nation.” The message is that Washington — acting unilaterally and relying more and more on military force — will target for brutal…
Prison officials at Florida’s privately run Blackwater River Correctional Facility banned an issue of the Militant on Feb. 1. Their reason? According to the rejection notice sent to the paper, they allege that two front-page articles in issue no. 4…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Talking with workers, farmers and small-business people in this area, members of the Socialist Workers Party found many have serious questions about the long-term effects of the derailment of 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern train…
For more than a century following the American Revolution, the Constitution’s provision that presidents regularly “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,” was carried out by submitting written reports. Over the past 100 years, the two…
Campaigning in working-class neighborhoods in cities and rural areas, members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are finding a lot of interest in the new book, The Low Point…
MANCHESTER, England — Almost 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the British rulers’ grip on Northern Ireland is weaker than ever. Cross-border trade in Ireland has increased, pro-unification forces are gaining momentum and pro-British Unionist parties in Northern Ireland…
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — For the first time, the Militant was able to interview Masha Alyokhina, a member of Pussy Riot, a performance art collective, whose members have been imprisoned for their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its…
