‘Militant’ reporters head to Puerto Rico

Vol. 83/No. 31 - August 26, 2019

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president in 2016; Seth Galinsky, the SWP candidate for New York City public advocate; and Linda Joyce from Atlanta are heading to Puerto Rico Aug. 15 for five days to bring…


Cuban Revolution shows workers can win

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

Sixty-six years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada military barracks in Santiago, Cuba. The brutal regime of Fulgencio Batista had seized power, cancelled elections and arrested or murdered those who challenged his…


Independence for Puerto Rico!

Vol. 83/ No. 28 - August 5, 2019

Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, issued the following statement July 24.  Angry over capitalist politicians’ disregard for their lives in the wake of Hurricane Maria, decades of government attacks on their standard of…


Join fight against prison censorship!

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

The Militant is fighting for the right of workers behind bars to read the Militant and other books and publications they choose in two of the 21 states where we have prison subscribers — Florida and Kansas. We’re asking our…


Join SWP on ‘right side of history’

Vol. 83/No. 25 - July 15, 2019

The 2020 U.S. elections — with 16 months to go — are front-page news, as incumbent Donald Trump and some two dozen Democratic wannabes pound away at each other. All these Democratic and Republican politicians, whether self-proclaimed socialists, liberals or…


Joyce Meissenheimer: Communist fighter

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019
Joyce Meissenheimer in Toronto in December 2007.

MONTREAL — Joyce Meissenheimer, 96, a member and cadre of the Communist League in Canada for almost 50 years, died in Calgary June 7 of heart failure. Before coming to Canada, Meissenheimer was a fighter against the apartheid regime in…


Socialist Workers Party 2019 campaign program

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

The Socialist Workers Party’s fighting program to confront the economic, social and moral crisis caused by capitalism:   UNIONS/FOR A LABOR PARTY Support workers’ struggles to organize to defend themselves, to use union power on behalf of ourselves and all…


Fight for women’s right to choose abortion

Vol. 83/No. 22 - June 3, 2019

The following statement was released May 20 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas. The Socialist Workers Party and its 2019 slate of candidates across the country call on working people and all supporters of women’s…


Bring ‘Militant’, books, fund drive home!

Vol. 83/No. 21 - May 27, 2019

Join the final two weeks of our Spring drive to expand the readership of the Militant  and revolutionary books and help fund the paper! The Militant  is a unique voice speaking in the interests of working people. Recent issues raised…


Fight Fla. prison censorship of ‘Militant’

Vol. 83/No. 20 - May 20, 2019

Prisons in the United States are a brutal microcosm of capitalist society as a whole — with its ruthless exploitation of our labor, restrictions on our rights and armed cops and solitary confinement. These are all intended to undermine the…