Working people in Iran protest effects of social crisis, gov’t wars abroad

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

Protesters marched in several Iranian cities after widespread power outages caused havoc for workers and farmers. The demonstrations follow previous rounds of country-wide mobilizations in 2018 and since by working people fed up with the government’s military adventures abroad, ongoing…




Protest hits Jew-hatred, backs Israel’s right to exist

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

WASHINGTON — Over 1,000 people joined the July 11 “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People” here. The protest was called following a spate of anti-Jewish assaults in May. There were more than 1,200 incidents of antisemitic…


Help take SWP campaign out to working people far and wide

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
SWP campaigners, from left, Dave Perry, Ned Measel and Samir Hazboun talk politics with Ralph Robinson Jr., a Kroger store worker and member of UFCW union, in Cincinnati July 10.

“The Socialist Workers Party’s International Active Workers Conference July 22-24 will be a springboard for campaigns led by the 20 candidates the party has endorsed in the 2021 elections,” John Studer, SWP national campaign director, told the Militant. “We will…


Autoworkers stand up to Volvo truck bosses

Fight to close wage, benefit gap for new hires
Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
United Auto Workers members on strike at Volvo truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 27.

Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members voted down a new tentative agreement with Volvo truck bosses July 9 — the third time angry union members have rejected deals they consider insufficient this year. Since the vote the striking…



SWP hosts Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

Under the banner of “Leading the Working Class to Take Power/ Join the Socialist Workers Party!/ Build the Communist Vanguard!” the SWP is hosting an International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24. Working-class fighters who’ve…


Cuba’s working people rose up, carried out a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

“What the imperialists cannot forgive,” Fidel Castro told the Cuban people at a rally in Havana April 16, 1961, on the eve of Washington’s attempted Bay of Pigs invasion, was “that we have made a socialist revolution right under their…


Lenin: ‘Oppressed nations have the right to self-determination’

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin, center, at Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, 1920. Lenin explained the need to back the fight for national liberation in colonies and semicolonies, for the toilers to organize independent of the imperialists and their capitalist allies there.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1). This excerpt is from a report to the…