Vol. 77/No. 31 – The Militant

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End of decadeslong retreat of labor opens new opportunities

Oberlin conference will discuss strengthening unions, building Socialist Workers Party

School bus drivers strike in Wasilla, Alaska, Jan. 26, demanding adequate heating, headlights, windshield wipers and pay. More workers today are using their unions to fight attacks of bosses and their government

“Our experiences in the United States confirm that the low point of working-class and labor resistance is…

Demand Washington end its economic war on Cuba! Now!

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT

Crews repair electrical grid Sept. 30 in Pinar del Rió after Hurricane Ian. There is no better moment to explain the facts and win working people to oppose U.S. economic war on Cuba.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English or Spanish The following…

Taking the Socialist Workers Party’s program to the toilers

Conference discusses working-class response to capitalist crises, sets party convention

Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes addresses conference.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English, French, and Spanish “We have…

Access to the Militant’s unique Ukraine coverage

The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to…

Defend Ukraine’s independence!
For defeat of Moscow’s invasion!
US troops, nuclear arms out of Europe, all of Europe!

“No to war!” protesters chant in St. Petersburg Feb. 25. More than 7,000 have been arrested as tens of thousands joined actions in 54 Russian cities against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The following statement was issued March 3 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party,…

‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of…

The murder of Thomas Sankara: a popular revolution overturned

“The democratic and popular revolution needs a convinced people, not a conquered people,” says the sign above, quoting revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara under his photo. It’s carried in a June 29, 2013, protest against Blaise Compaore, who led the 1987 counterrevolution.

(For a French version of this article, click here.) Blaise Compaore, the iron-fisted ruler of Burkina Faso…

Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.