Books workers need today

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

See distributors in the Directory or visit pathfinderpress.com



Solidarity with miners! No worker has to die!

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Statement issued Oct. 19 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas. A former coal miner, Kennedy was part of a Militant reporting team to Soma, Turkey, in 2014. The methane gas explosion in the state-owned Turkish…


Inflation, slow-up in production deepen crisis for working people

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Rising prices are having a devastating impact on workers’ lives in the U.S., across the advanced capitalist world and, especially, in the semi-colonial countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, with no end in sight. The capitalist crisis increasingly involves…


Vote Socialist Workers Party! Back rail workers, Iran protests

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, discusses politics with protester while campaigning at Iran solidarity rally of 2,000 in San Francisco Oct. 9.

In the final couple of weeks leading up to elections, candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are campaigning to get out news of key strikes and working-class battles worldwide and presenting the party’s program. And they are introducing working people…


Turkish workers decry deadly gov’t coal mine blast

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

Saban Yildirim, one of 41 miners killed in an Oct. 14 coal mine disaster in Amasra, Turkey, had told his wife that “the mine had been smelling of gas inside for 10 days,” his father Kemal Yildirim told the press.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022

November 3, 1997 SANTA CLARA, Cuba — “We come not to bid farewell to Che and his heroic comrades, but to welcome them,” Cuban president Fidel Castro told an overflow crowd in the Ernesto Che Guevara Plaza Oct. 17. “I…


Moscow out of Ukraine now! Back Ukraine independence!

Kyiv’s sovereignty rests on its working class
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 16 by 300 supporters of Ukrainian independence. Putin’s terror bombing of Ukraine cities is deepening opposition across Russia.

Moscow’s deadly bombardment of Kyiv and other cities, targeting civilians as well as infrastructure needed for heat and power, has done nothing to deter the willingness of Ukrainians to defend their homeland. Kyiv’s forces continue to press to retake areas…


Iran protests keep growing as students, workers join

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Workers at Haft Tappeh sugar cane mill meet Oct. 18 to demand higher wages, reinstatement of a dismissed union representative. The sugar cane workers union has also called for release of imprisoned union members and protesters.

Despite brutal attacks by police, the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij thugs, and the arrests of thousands, daily protests across Iran have continued for more than 30 days and are still going strong. The protests began…