Cuba workers act to develop their own energy sources While the U.S. government steadily ratchets up sanctions to bar Cuba from receiving hard currency, oil and other resources, workers on the island are using their creativity and experience to maintain…
Without any fanfare and little media coverage in the big-business press, the Department of Justice issued a press release Sept. 16, “Liability for Unregistered Foreign Agents,” that contains a frontal assault on basic constitutional freedoms, including the rights to free…
A huge glacial avalanche plummeting around a mile vertically down the Himalayas triggered a fast, towering flood that swept through a major river valley formed by the Lhenda Khola, Bhotekoshi and then the Trishuli rivers between Nepal and Tibet Aug.…
For the first time in three years the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this month, claiming this will slow rising prices. This is “bad news for borrowers, good news for savers,” The Associated Press reported. They were obviously happy with…
Dear Readers, We invite you to join the Socialist Workers Party in its fall campaign to expand the reach of the Militant and books by party leaders and other revolutionary working-class fighters, to help build support for the party’s candidates…
Crisscrossing Mississippi, the 1966 March Against Fear grew to the largest ever statewide action against Jim Crow segregation June 26 in Jackson, the capital. Stu Singer, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee volunteer from Boston, who later became a leader of…
Take advantage of a special sale of selected volumes of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Collected Works from Pathfinder Press to expand your library! The special sale price is $15 for each volume. Held in storage for many years, these…
Working-class families, including the young men and women in uniform in the U.S., just got a stark lesson in how little the capitalist rulers here are concerned about the well-being of its troops. For the ruling families, they’re just cannon…
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…
The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…
