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''The Militant'' is an international socialist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). It is published in the United States and distributed in other countries such as Canada , United Kingdom , Australia , France , Sweden , Iceland , New Zealand . ''The Militant'' is not officially owned or controlled by the SWP. To protect the party and the paper, ''The Militant'' is owned by a private group, although the endorsement the paper gives to the Socialist Workers Party is clear. ''The Militant'' was launched in 1928 by James P. Cannon and other American Trotskyist Communists, and was first edited by Max Shachtman . It took up the fight "in the interest of the working people" against the capitalist system, imperialist wars and the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union , which according to the Trotskyists had betrayed and corrupted the Russian Revolution Of 1917 . In recent years it has become the international paper of record of the Pathfinder Tendency . In the summer of 2005, ''The Militant'' became a bilingual newspaper, published in both English and Spanish, and with lead articles and editorials appearing in both languages. reading ''the Militant'' in 1931]] EXTERNAL LINKS
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