2021 Books Workers Need Today
Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021Click here to see Distributors or visit Pathfinderpress.com
Year: 2021
ACLU rewrites history, undermines fight for women’s rights under banner of ‘gender’
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021Under the banner of opposing “gender oppression,” middle-class left and liberal groups are dealing blows to the fight for women’s emancipation. In response to recent attacks on women’s right to choose abortion, the American Civil Liberties Union Sept. 18 tweeted…
Celebrate the political life of Tim Craine
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021Tim Craine, a longtime member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for five decades, died of leukemia Sept. 25 in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 77. He was the party’s candidate for governor of Michigan in 1982 and…
Alabama miners: ‘Whatever it takes to win this strike’
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021ATLANTA — “We are going to do whatever it takes to win this strike,” United Mine Workers of America union member and Warrior Met Coal striker Steven Smith told the Militant Sept. 23. “We’re not going to give up the…
Caravans, rallies demand: ‘End US embargo of Cuba!’
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Caravans and rallies protesting Washington’s decadeslong economic war against Cuba were organized Sept. 26 in at least 12 U.S. cities, in Canada, the U.K. and five other countries. From Miami to Minneapolis, Seattle to Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
Worcester nurses: ‘We left as one, we go back as one’
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021WORCESTER, Mass. — Nurses on strike against St. Vincent Hospital here marked a historic 202 days on strike Sept. 25 — the longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history — with an expanded picket line called “Worcester Solidarity Day.” Some 200…
Why you should support the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021Below is an updated statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey. Her statement is available in English, Spanish, Korean and Gujarati on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission’s website. Patch.com, an online news…
The murder of Thomas Sankara: a popular revolution overturned
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
(For a French version of this article, click here.) Blaise Compaore, the iron-fisted ruler of Burkina Faso for almost three decades, will stand trial along with 13 others before a military tribunal Oct. 11 for the 1987 assassination of former…
Myth of women’s inferiority was born with class society
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Problems of Women’s Liberation by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Reed was a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party from 1940 until her death in 1979. She wrote and spoke about…
Quebec hotel workers strike, rally in fight for new contracts
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021MONTREAL — Some 2,000 workers at a score of hotels organized by the CSN (Federation of National Trade Unions) held a one-day strike in Quebec Sept. 17. Three big rallies took place here, in Quebec City and in Sherbrooke. “On…