Vol. 79/No. 22      June 15, 2015

Since 1995 the articles in each issue have been available on the website to readers around the world, from recent subscribers to longtime participants in the workers’ movement. Now more than 100 volunteers are working to put the Militant at your service from 1994 back to its founding in 1928.

The index helps workers involved in struggles find the accurate story of fights by working people over decades, and political lessons for today from a revolutionary working-class perspective on the biggest questions we face worldwide.

You’ll find news and analysis of the growing labor resistance and new rise in the Black struggle centered on the fight against police brutality; the deepening world capitalist crisis since 2008; the 1979 revolutions in Nicaragua, Grenada, and Iran, and Cuba’s internationalist mission in Angola that helped bring down white-supremacist rule in Namibia and South Africa; the Vietnamese liberation fight and movement against the U.S. war in Indochina; the Black struggle from the Montgomery bus boycott in the mid-1950s to the victories that defeated Jim Crow; the Cuban Revolution of 1959; the mass social movement in the 1930s that built the industrial unions; the fight against fascism and anti-Semitism; and much more.

You’ll find weekly coverage of communist workers’ activity in the unions and social struggles over these years, including Socialist Workers Party election campaigns and efforts to expand the readership of the Militant and books on revolutionary politics.

The improved website is invaluable for understanding shifts in Washington’s foreign policy in order to chart a way forward for working people from the Americas to the Mideast, Ukraine and beyond. It politically arms workers and youth defending the socialist revolution in Cuba, and points to the example of workers and farmers there taking political power from the capitalist rulers and transforming themselves in the process.

The index allows readers to look up articles by subject and author, as well as search headlines by keyword. So far it covers issues from 2006 to 2015, with more years on the way soon.

Since mid-2013 a PDF file of the full issue of the Militant has been added with each week’s articles, so readers can see the pages as they appear in print. PDFs are now posted back to 2006, and volunteers are scanning bound volumes to produce clean, searchable copies going back 87 years. The new index is an addition to the searchable issues themselves.

Other features have been added too. The weekly “On the Picket Line” column has been redesigned to include the entire column online together with the main photo.

The Cuban documentary “Cuba and Chernobyl,” which tells the story of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe and Cuba’s exemplary international medical program that treated more than 25,000 Ukrainians, is available to view and download. Volunteers translated the Spanish sound track to provide English subtitles.
 
 
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