Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 9. Safety is at the heart of many working-class struggles today as the bosses drive to increase productivity and profits, leading to deadly speedup and disdain for…


Victory won in overturning Indiana prison ban of ‘Militant’

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

News update: Shortly after going to press June 9, the Militant was informed by Indiana prison authorities that the ban on issues of the paper withheld from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson had been overturned. “I agree with you that censoring’ images…


Jewish and Arab workers join to advance class solidarity in Israel

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

The brief wave of clashes in Israel in mid-May shows the challenges and the desire of Jewish and Arab working people there to come together to advance their class interests. Attacks against Jews and Arabs alike took place as tensions…


The working-class road forward in tackling crime and cop violence

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor Doug Nelson, inset. Campaign points to how 1964 Black rights protests led by Gloria Richardson, above, in Maryland built solidarity, cut crime.

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of Socialist Workers Party candidates Doug Nelson for mayor and David Rosenfeld for City Council in Ward 12 here had a successful weekend June 5-6 campaigning with workers on their doorsteps and collecting signatures to put Nelson…


Scientific socialism grew with the working-class movement

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Karl Marx, holding Neue Rheinische Zeitung with Frederick Engels in 1848 German revolution, helped build Communist League, first modern working-class party. Engels wrote, “Com-munism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds not from principles but from facts.”

The excerpt below is from one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels. Engels helped found the modern communist movement alongside Karl Marx. In this book, written by Engels with the collaboration…


Back workers standing up to boss attacks, build solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

“We think workers should support unionists standing up to the bosses’ attacks, like striking miners in Alabama, and refinery workers in Minnesota and Texas,” Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun told truck driver Dale Robinson in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5.…


Working people worldwide look to fight effects of rising prices

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Demonstration during Friday prayers in Taiz, Yemen, June 4, protesting devastating impact of inflation, deterioration of government social services and widespread official corruption.

Food prices and the cost of other necessities for working people are soaring worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for workers to join together to fight for jobs, higher wages and automatic cost-of-living adjustments on our wages and retirement pay. Millions…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

June 24, 1996 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Arsonists burned down a portion of an historic Black church here June 6. This is one of more than 30 fires set in Black churches in the South since early 1995. The attacks…


Belarus dictator forces plane down, seizes protester

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021

In a brazen state skyjacking of a Ryanair passenger plane May 23, Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for 27 years, seized dissident journalist Raman Protasevich and his companion, Russian student Sofia Sapega. A MiG-29 fighter…


Workers need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021

Statement by Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Philadelphia district attorney, June 1.  As millions remain jobless today, driven out of the workforce by government-ordered coronavirus shut downs and the sharp contraction in capitalist production and trade, workers and…