Originally published December 22 at internationalsocialist.net. Christmas Eve, December 24, marked 10 months since Putinâs Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. For the people of Ukraine, it has meant hell on earth, currently a dark, cold winter with constant missile attacks.There is no sign that the fighting is nearing an end. On the contrary…
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party, I express New Year greetings and best wishes to you and your family. It is going to be a busy and action-packed 2023: SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRIKERS! Who now denies the existence of the working class â the people whose labour creates, stores, transports and delivers societyâs goods and services…
As the curtain comes down on 2022, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization wishes you a happy new year! We look forward to a new year of struggle, and victories, that raise us to new heights. Conditions show we are in an exciting period for revolutionaries who want to connect with workers and the oppressed with practical plans. 2023 promises many opportunities…
Minneapolis, MN - There was a high tide of struggle on many fronts in 2022. With so much going on, it can be easy to forget some of the things our movements have accomplished. That makes it all the more important to look back and review the lessons from this yearâs resistance so we can move forward stronger. First, weâd like to recognize the people…
Clare Doyle, Committee for Workerâs International, reviews PBS America âCommemorationâ It is a hundred years since the establishment of the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia â later known as the USSR= at the end of 1922. The first signatories represented the revolutionary new governments in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Transcaucasia…
If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of segregation in the South, this movie misses the mark. It focuses on Mamie Till, whose 14-year-old son Emmett was cold bloodedly lynched while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. But it shows very little of how Mamie Till decided to step up and lead years…
At what point does a country cross the line from being âprotectedâ to being occupied? This is a question which many Qataris must be asking themselves as they witness the supposed US âprotectorâ of Qatarâs security flood their country with military trainers, advisors and consultants to âprotectâ the country from an âunnamed foreign enemyâ…
By T.P. Wilkinson / December 31st, 2022 In another 50 years China will be stronger, and by that time the Chinese Communist Party will be a hundred years old. The United States will surely be envious and ill-intentioned, but it doesnât dare attack China, not even with a single bullet. It will research germ contamination. That is immoral. After it finishes…
By Allen Forrest / December 31st, 2022 Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College…
Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines December 31, 2022 Aim for revolutionary victories in 2023 Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer Communist Party of the Philippines January 1, 2023 The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its revolutionary greetings to the Filipino people, their heroic Red fighters…
The true rĂ©sumĂ© is rarely honest. The entire document is based on a stream of twisting embellishments, fanciful achievements, and, in some cases, pure fiction. Read it, as you would, an autobiography, which could only interest audiences by what it omits, what it underlines, and what it pretends to celebrate. The wrinkles vanish, the wounding sores…
MONTREAL â There was increased interest in books about working-class and revolutionary history and politics at the Pathfinder booth at the Nov. 23-27 annual Montreal Book Fair. Volunteers from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City sold 138 books and 13 subscriptions to the Militant, almost 50% more than last year. Some 75,000 people took…
âWe thought we might not be getting the California Gas Tax Rebate, but after all this time it finally showed up in our mailbox. So, it gives us great pleasure to contribute the $700 we received to the Militant,â wrote Patti Iiyama and Jerry Freiwirth from the Oakland area. âThe paper is, of course, completely indispensable to workers and farmers…
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the U.S. and worldwide. Close to 3,000 people died across the country in the third week of December, nearly 90% of them over 65 years old. Hospitalizations have increased 30% over the last two weeks. Itâs a far different picture than the one President Joseph Biden painted on a Sunday â60 Minutesâ broadcast in…
PHILADELPHIA â Some 1,400 people, mostly from universities in the United States, Canada and some African countries, attended the African Studies Association conference here Nov. 17-19. They discussed the social and political crises produced by imperialist exploitation of the continentâs resources and people. This is exacerbated by the recent droughts…
Statement by Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, Dec. 28. Militant/David RosenfeldIlona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party 2023 candidate for mayor of Chicago. Recent experiences of millions of working people have driven home the fact that the key division in U.S. politics is not the conflicts between Democrats and Republicans…
Touted by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer as good for âparents, veterans, nurses, workersâ and for âvital services,â a sweeping $1.66 trillion âomnibusâ spending package passed the Senate with bipartisan support Dec. 22 and the House the next day. Under cover of posturing about supporting Ukraine, the heart of the bill is military…
CHICAGO â Even though the countryâs 115,000 rail workers have been saddled with a government-imposed contract that unions representing a majority of the workers had voted down, they continue to seek to use their unions to fight for livable schedules, safer working conditions and against boss demands for even more job cuts. The workersâ efforts…
Working people in Ukraine continue to lead the defense of their homeland from deadly bombardment and war moves carried out by the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putinâs regime. Theyâve pushed Moscowâs invaders back from over half the territory Russian forces occupied early in the war. Undeterred by these losses, Moscow continues its drive…
In the face of more than 100 days of protests across the country by working people and youth, the capitalist government of Iran is suffering from deepening factional divisions over how best to proceed. The outpouring of opposition to the governmentâs trampling on rights was sparked by the death of Mahsa â Gina in the Kurdish language â Amini…
By Mickey Z. / December 31st, 2022 I took the photo above shortly before midnight on December 31, 2011, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. Please allow me to explain. Members of Occupy Wall Street and other local âactivistâ groups held a ânoise demoâ in front of the jail to let the prisoners know they were not forgotten…
By Nikos Mottas.December 30th marked the 100th anniversary since the founding of the world's first workers' state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The creation of the USSR was the practical result of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution, the single most important event in modern history that became the first conscious step for the transition…
On May 1977, the legendary leader of Socialist Cuba, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro, gave an interview to ABC's reporter Barbara Walters (1929-2022). It was Fidel's first interview to U.S. television since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Below you can read the full transcript of the interview, accompanied by a video:Â When will your country and…
Visitors to museums and educational establishments, such as the V&A Museum in London and Oxford University, will be acquainted with the name of Sackler. This is the billionaire family from America which, for decades, has funded many of aspects of these institutions, and other world renowned galleries and universities, like the Louvre, Yale and Harvard…
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state -- we take a look at how the emblem and seal of the USSR was designed. The text and images are drawn from a Soviet Life article in 1972 on the 50th anniversary.Text:In the winter of 1918 Lenin ask the Council of People…
