FBI unleashes spies on a Chicago bookstore

Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023

CHICAGO — The owners of Pilsen Community Books here discovered the FBI has been spying on them. “They called us ‘pro-abortion extremists’ because we had a sign-painting event for the June 22 [2022] action supporting a woman’s right to choose…


SWP Int’l Educational Conference set June 8-11 in Ohio

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

The Socialist Workers Party 2023 International Educational Conference is less than two months away. The conference will take place June 8-11 at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The conference will include reports by leaders of the party, classes and discussion…


‘Militant’ gets around in the prisons

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

For the first time in decades, the Militant now has over 200 subscribers in 66 state and federal prisons across 28 states. Since the paper is often shared as part of what some workers behind bars call the “newspaper train,”…


Communist League hits Jew-hating attack in Canada

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023

MONTREAL — During the March 25-26 weekend an antisemitic attack on the Bagg Street Shul took place here. Perpetrators spray-painted multiple black swastikas on the front of the 102-year-old synagogue, including on the glass on the front door. The swastikas…


Militant Fighting Fund key to financing the paper

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

The Militant is 100% financed by its readers — workers, farmers and youth who think the paper’s coverage is crucial to help our class find a road forward against the attacks of the bosses, their government and their state. We…


Peace protesters get ‘Militant,’ discuss unions, war in Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
Navy veteran Tanesha Stebb subscribes to Militant after discussion with SWP member Willie Cotton at March 18 peace protest in Washington; 11 subscriptions and 18 books were sold

WASHINGTON — Socialist Workers Party members found interest in the party’s program and activities when they campaigned at a March 18 “Fund people’s needs, not the war machine” protest across from the White House.   The action was called by…


Many attracted to ‘Militant’ at Havana Int’l Book Fair

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

HAVANA — An indication of the interest in revolutionary working-class politics among workers and youth visiting the Pathfinder stand at the Havana International Book Fair this February was the 31 who subscribed to the Militant. Volunteers at the Pathfinder bookstand…


NJ sanitation workers discuss strike over wages, boss attacks

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey state Senate, talks with striking Camden, New Jersey, sanitation workers, from left, Bill Atkinson, Rhashik Mathes, and Moe, on Teamsters Local 115 picket line March 4. “We need workers control over our jobs,” said Kuniansky.

CAMDEN, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, along with Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and this Militant  reporter, visited the sanitation workers picket line here in solidarity March 4. The…


‘Politically correct’ publishing bosses censor Roald Dahl

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

“Taking care for the imagination and fast-developing minds of young children,” the editors at Puffin, a division of Penguin Random House, pontificated Feb. 24, “is a responsibility.” This was why they had to bowdlerize 17 titles by children’s author Roald…


Communist League in Canada advances working-class program

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
“We can’t rely on parties that defend the interests of the bosses,” Beverly Bernardo, the Communist League candidate in Canada, inset, told audience of 65 at candidates debate sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri community organization in Montreal Feb. 28.

MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in the March 13 provincial by-election in the Montreal electoral constituency of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, brought her fighting working-class program to some 65 people at a candidates’ debate Feb. 28, sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri…