25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

March 5, 1993 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — An historic International Solidarity Conference organized by the African National Congress here February 19-21 endorsed the ANC’s call for rapid elections to a Constituent Assembly to end racist apartheid rule once and for…


Malcolm X: ‘It is impossible for capitalism to survive’

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Malcolm X published in the March-April, 1965 issue of the Young Socialist, conducted Jan. 18 of that year by Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard of the Young Socialist Alliance. A month later,…


South African revolution: Historic victory for the working people

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt from a speech given in 1985 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, titled, “The Coming Revolution in South Africa.” It’s published in New International magazine no. 5. Copyright © 1985 by New…


Communist League in UK says workers need to fight for power

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

LONDON — Pamela Holmes, the Communist League candidate for mayor of the borough of Tower Hamlets, East London, took her communist campaign to an area where residents are demanding the borough council improve the safety of their homes. Their efforts…


Demand amnesty for immigrant workers!

Propertied rulers debate who to let in, keep out
Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018
Sept. 10 Omaha, Nebraska, protest. Socialist Workers Party says Amnesty for all immigrants!

Democratic and some Republican senators on the one side and President Donald Trump on the other are blaming each other for the failure to pass legislation that would block the deportation of thousands of immigrant “dreamers” who came to the…


Gov’t moves to reopen frame-up case against Bundys

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

U.S. prosecutors have not given up their witch hunt against the Bundy cattle-ranching family in Nevada, even after the feds’ frame-up charges against them and their supporters have either been thrown out of court or led to acquittal at trial.…


Conflicts heat up in Syria as US, rivals push interests

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

The multifront conflicts in Syria being fought by rival capitalist powers in the region — alongside intervention from Moscow and the imperialist rulers in Washington — continue to take a horrific toll on working people there. As each of these…


‘We’ll protest until all the lights are on in Puerto Rico’

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018
‘We’ll protest until all the lights are on in Puerto Rico’

More than 200 residents of Aguas Buenas and nearby towns marched outside Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s central offices in San Juan Feb. 12. They sang, “We come from Aguas Buenas to let you know, if the light doesn’t come…


Liberals hail FBI witch hunt against Trump White House

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Liberals are singing the praises of the U.S. political police after former FBI boss Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian organizations for conspiracy to “defraud the United States” by interfering in politics here. The Feb. 16 indictments…


Agreement ends final case against Quebec rail worker

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

On Jan. 19 locomotive engineer Tom Harding and train traffic controller Richard Labrie, members of United Steelworkers Local 1976, won acquittal by a jury on frame-up charges of criminal negligence for the deaths of 47 people in the July 2013…