FAIRFIELD, Texas — Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for governor of Texas, party member Dennis Richter and the author of this article met Nathaniel Turner on a recent campaign trip here. We were eating lunch in a local diner where he…
For the last two years, car caravans and protests calling for an end to the U.S. economic war on Cuba have taken place on the last Sunday of every month across the United States and around the world. For more…
Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…
Ukrainian prosecutors rushed to put 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin on trial May 13, charging him with having committed “war crimes.” This is the first of what authorities there say will be hundreds of such prosecutions. If convicted Shysimarin faces…
Workers and their unions in Ukraine are joining in the fight to defeat Moscow’s invasion of their country, while standing up to assaults on jobs, wages and working conditions by bosses who are backed by the government of President Volodymyr…
In a successful counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces pushed the invading Russian army back from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, reaching the Russian border May 16. Moscow’s plans to capture more of the Donbas have stalled. The Vladimir Putin regime had insisted it…
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims Moscow had to invade Ukraine to “denazify” the country. He propagates through his rigidly government-controlled media the charge that “neo-Nazis” and “far-right nationalists” took over Ukraine in 2014 in a “coup” backed by Washington and…
Ricardo Alarcón, a decadeslong central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, died in Havana April 30. He was 84 years old. Born in 1937, Alarcón was a leader of the July 26 Movement at the University of Havana during the struggle…
“When Ukraine is free, Tatars will be free. Of course, the struggle for our national rights will continue, but nothing like what we face under Russian occupation,” Melek Maksudoglu recently told the Militant. She got to know the paper in…
NEW YORK — “We’re still at the beginning of the fight for the union,” Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, told the Militant May 9. The union won the vote for recognition at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten…
