“This is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat,” Jacquie Henderson read to retired health care worker Rose Skarski from a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Vol. 2). Delegates came to the congress from 37 countries…
September 9, 1996 Thousands of students in South Korea engaged in a nine-day confrontation with the government authorities, demanding reunification of the Korean peninsula. The protests began with a demonstration of 7,000 students in Seoul August 12. The rally was…
The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth assessment report, provoking renewed hysteria in the capitalist media and among liberal “Green New Deal” proponents that environmental disaster confronts us all today. The report is “code red…
SYDNEY — Sam Charan and his family are leading a fight to save their home and two others on Webb Street in Riverwood, a working-class district in this city’s southwest, from being demolished to make way for a commuter parking…
NEW YORK — A hundred people marched here Aug. 15 to protest U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico. Similar actions were held in Chicago; Detroit; Miami; Oakland, California; Orlando, Florida; and Washington, D.C., under the banner of “No to statehood,…
The following letter was sent by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes to Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, on Nov. 27, 2016, after the death two days earlier of Fidel Castro, his brother…
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. — In an important victory for the right to free speech and for science, Circuit Court Judge James Plowman ordered Loudoun County Public Schools officials on June 8 to reinstate physical education teacher Byron Tanner Cross to his…
NEW YORK — Why does Cuba’s socialist revolution continue to live, fight and set an example worldwide more than 60 years after workers and farmers there took power? What makes class and social relations in Cuba so different from anywhere…
WORCESTER, Mass. — “We are holding strong,” Jackie Brosnihan, a nurse on strike here at St. Vincent hospital, told the Militant Aug. 14. Brosnihan is one of 700 nurses who walked off the job March 8 over dangerous conditions facing…
