Help put SWP Party-Building Fund over the top!

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

The Socialist Workers Party’s annual Party-Building Fund has two weeks to go, with a goal of raising at least $140,000 for the SWP to get out its program and activities to working people around the world. The SWP and its…



Colorado cop convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023
Violinists from around country played at march of thousands in Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 2020, demanding justice for Elijah McClain, killed by cops in Aurora, Colorado, in 2019. Concerts elsewhere honored McClain, inset, who played his violin to soothe animals at local shelters.

More than four years since Elijah McClain died after being brutalized by police in Aurora, Colorado, a jury Oct. 12 unanimously found police officer Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. He will be sentenced Jan. 5.…


Help make the SWP Party-Building Fund a success!

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

The Party-Building Fund, part of the campaign to reach out with the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, runs for eight weeks, from Sept. 23 through Nov. 21. It is at the heart of covering…


Fidel: ‘We will build a homeland ever more revolutionary’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Nine days after the bombing of Cubana airlines Flight 455, a million Cubans converged on Revolution Square in Havana. Below are excerpts from the speech Fidel Castro gave on Oct. 15, 1976. In parts of the speech not included here,…


Movie depicts how US-backed terrorists blew up Cuban plane

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
At Colón Cemetery in Havana, Oct. 6, 2015, Cubans mark 39th anniversary of destruction of Cubana Flight 455, blown up by opponents of Cuba’s socialist revolution, killing 73 people.

“Cubana 455: Chronicles of October 6,” a three-part documentary and epilogue written and directed by Enrique Berumen  BY BERNIE SENTER On Oct. 6, 1976, U.S.-backed enemies of Cuba’s socialist revolution detonated two bombs on Cubana airlines Flight 455. All 73…



UK forum discusses prospects to build the Communist League

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Over the past year 1,000 workers at Amazon sites in U.K., above, have taken 26 days of strike action fighting long hours, low pay. Inset, Communist League leader Jonathan Silberman speaks at Sept. 2 London Militant Labour Forum. CL had met week before, discussed new openings to build revolutionary working-class party.

LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a special Militant Labour Forum here Sept. 2. Silberman was speaking on behalf of the…


Interest in Pathfinder books high at Federation of Blind convention

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
At National Federation of the Blind convention July 2, Pathfinder volunteer Gale Shangold, right, spoke with, from left, Marva Hall and Casshia Cooks Coplin, a UPS worker who got Militant subscription. Discussions covered unions, constitutional freedoms, women’s rights.

HOUSTON — Some 2,500 people attended the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind here July 1-6. For the second year in a row, Pathfinder Press was among the 100 exhibitors, publicizing titles it now makes available in accessible…


Miami SWP denounces threats against Jewish mayor in Surfside

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023

MIAMI — On Aug. 4 Shlomo Danzinger, the Orthodox Jewish mayor of Surfside, received an email from someone who identified himself as representing the “Fourth Reich” and threatened to come to Danzinger’s house to “teach his family a lesson.”  Having…