NEW YORK — Some 50 people attended a Militant Labor Forum here Jan. 18 titled, “55th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the Coming American Revolution.” Speaker Dave Prince of the Socialist Workers Party pointed to a number of books soon to be available from Pathfinder Press that the party will be organizing to get in the hands of working people.

Attractive posters of the covers of the eight new titles were on display at the forum hall, lining the front of the room and along the walls. They include the English and Spanish editions of I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived, illustrated and explaining 15 watercolors by Antonio Guerrero for the 15th anniversary of the imprisonment of the Cuban Five; Voices from Prison in English and Spanish that shows the respect the Five won among fellow workers behind bars; a Spanish edition of Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women; a new edition in English and Spanish of Socialism on Trial, testimony by leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and the SWP who were framed up during a 1941 trial under the Smith “Gag” Act; and Fifty Years of Covert Operations in the U.S.: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class, a new edition in Spanish and soon to be available as a separate book in English.

Posters of the book covers were displayed at a Militant Labor Forum in San Francisco the same evening where Norton Sandler of the SWP spoke on the civil war in Syria, U.S. foreign policy and recent events in Iran and Iraq.