Victory won in overturning Indiana prison ban of ‘Militant’

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

News update: Shortly after going to press June 9, the Militant was informed by Indiana prison authorities that the ban on issues of the paper withheld from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson had been overturned. “I agree with you that censoring’ images…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 9. Safety is at the heart of many working-class struggles today as the bosses drive to increase productivity and profits, leading to deadly speedup and disdain for…


Book on Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution out in Greek

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Cuba’s Ambassador in Greece, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina, left, and book editor Natasha Terlexi, speak at May 30 book launch of Our History Is Still Being Written in Greek.

ATHENS, Greece — Publisher Diethnes Vima publicly launched its newly released Greek-language edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution here May 30. The book is a series of…



Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Despite facing over 7,000 police, ostensibly mobilized to block “illegal assemblies,” throngs of people gathered outside barricaded Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4. They were honoring hundreds killed 32 years ago when Beijing brutally crushed mass protests for political…


Autoworkers back on picket line in Volvo Truck strike

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Picket at Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 7. UAW members voted down contract offer for second time by 90%.

After twice voting down proposed contracts by 90%, 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, went back on strike June 7. Horns blared as workers drove out of the plant…


Ongoing protests in Colombia hit jobs crisis, police brutality

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Indigenous Misak join in anti-government protest in Bogotá, Colombia, June 2, demanding jobs, guaranteed income, subsidies for small farmers and dismantling of hated riot police.

Nationwide strikes and protests demanding jobs and an end to police attacks have paralyzed Colombia for almost two months. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets again June 2 after negotiations between the government and protest leaders stalled.…


Graves of Indigenous youth provoke outrage in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

MONTREAL — The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, confirmed May 27, has provoked outrage among working people across Canada.…


Women in Dominican Republic protest ban on abortion

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

NEW YORK — The Dominican Republic is one of four countries in Latin America — along with Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador — where abortion is completely illegal, no exceptions. Only four Latin American countries have legalized abortion: revolutionary Cuba,…


SWP: ‘Workers need a fighting class-struggle road forward’

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California State Assembly District 18, talks with Quenton Hilton, a mechanic, in Fresno May 29. “Only on the job can workers fight together for higher wages, safer working conditions,” Britton said. “Yes!” Hilton agreed.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaigners are finding growing receptivity to their perspective for a class-struggle road forward against the attacks of the bosses and their government, and for workers to form their own party, a labor party. This is…