25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

November 16, 1998 A series of demonstrations Nov.7-21 will demand the release of Puerto Rican fighters locked up in U.S. prisons and call for Puerto Rican independence. The actions are part of an upturn in the campaign to free the…


US rulers launch Palmer raids, seek to crush Communist parties

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Mass arrests of members of communist movement, union fighters during notorious raids carried out by Democrat Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Special targets were newly formed Communist parties. Up to 10,000 worker militants were detained, many deported.

Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt from “New capitalist repressions” explains how the U.S. rulers trampled on constitutional freedoms to crush union militancy…


Nurses picket at Minnesota hospitals for safe staffing levels

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS — At an informational picket at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital here Oct. 26, some 100 Minnesota Nurses Association members and Service Employees International Union members who work in the same hospitals got out the word about the dangers both…


While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Retirees and oil workers across Iran are continuing weekly protests to defend living standards while workers elsewhere are striking in the face of an annual inflation rate of 46%. At the same time, working people in Iran have largely boycotted…


Workers need our own foreign policy

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, Nov. 1. The one thing all the Democratic and Republican candidates for president share in common is a foreign policy based on defense of the economic and…


¿Por qué existe Israel?

Israel ha existido como un refugio para los judíos desde hace 75 años. Su existencia se hizo inevitable por tres hechos históricos: la traición por los partidos estalinistas contrarrevolucionarios ante las condiciones propicias para que los trabajadores tomaran el poder…