The US Civil War was Second American Revolution

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020
President Abraham Lincoln meets with officers of Union army in 1862. Second American Revolution abolished chattel slavery, also marked the end of progressive political role of U.S. bourgeoisie, wrote Novack.

America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Novack joined the communist movement in the United States in 1933 and remained a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party…



Las Vegas gov’t ‘houses’ homeless in parking lot

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020

The moral bankruptcy of the capitalist profit system is on sharp display in the priorities set by the bosses and their government in dealing with the social effects of the coronavirus outbreak on working people. It comes through very starkly…


Workers’ job actions lead fight for safety, more pay

Road to build a fighting labor movement
Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020
Sanitation workers in Pittsburgh protest for safety equipment, higher pay. “Nobody respected the garbage men till we didn’t pick up the garbage,” worker Derrick McClinton told the media.

Around the country and worldwide, more and more workers are organizing on the job to fight callous insistence by the bosses that they work without protective equipment in hazardous environments. They are also resisting other attacks on their jobs, wages…


1959 revolution opened door to Cuba’s int’l solidarity

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020

The Cuban government continues to respond to any requests to send medical workers to countries around the world to combat the coronavirus epidemic. And Washington is stepping up its slander of the unstinting work of Cuba’s medical volunteers. It seeks…


Rulers use workers’ smartphones to spy on them

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020

The main method the bosses and their governments around the world are using to “fight” the coronavirus pandemic is to impose lockdowns, quarantines, curfews and job furloughs on working people. And they are expanding spying and surveillance as well. They’re…


Morality of capitalist rulers reflected in shutdown of AA

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020
Lori Spencer waves to her 81-year-old mother through window at Seattle aged care facility March 11. Capitalist rulers’ “social distancing” restrictions increase isolation by shutting down sorely needed meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and visits to elderly in care homes.

NEW YORK — The responses of the capitalist bosses and their governments to the spread of coronavirus — both what they have not done to prepare and what they are doing to defend their profit-driven system — is taking a…


Celebrate life of veteran communist leader Alan Harris

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020

LONDON — Alan Harris, a decadeslong leader of the communist movement in the U.K. and internationally, died here March 26, just short of his 87th birthday. He contracted coronavirus while hospitalized after suffering a major stroke. Harris served for many…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020

April 17, 1995 A wave of class outrage swept the Philippines in response to the execution of Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino maid hanged to death by the government of Singapore March 17. The Philippines is the world’s largest exporter of…