SWP fought US gov’t to open doors to Jews fleeing Nazi terror

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate the proletarian internationalist course of the 1917…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

December 16, 1996 On December 3 hundreds of thousands of coal miners throughout Russia went on strike to demand back wages, which have not been paid for months. Union leaders estimate more than two-thirds of the country’s 560,000 miners went…


Truck drivers in Australia win gains, FedEx bosses hold out

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

SYDNEY — FedEx drivers in New South Wales and Western Australia took part in a four-hour protest strike Nov. 22, joining other truckers across the country fighting for a pay raise to meet growing inflation and to limit the big…


Unionists march in support of Erie Strayer strikers

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

PITTSBURGH — A Nov. 18 march in support of some 40 Iron Workers Regional Shop Local 851 members on strike at Erie Strayer since Oct. 4 brought out members of seven different area unions and family members. They included members…