Capitalist crises pose necessity of socialist revolution in the US

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
New York Stock Exchange, Oct. 19, 1987, onset of U.S. financial crash. Similar crash struck world markets in 2007. Crises are built into the workings of capitalism, driving bosses and their governments to push to salvage their profit system on the backs of working people.

The French edition of  Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible? by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It features talks the Socialist Workers Party leader gave as part of an extended political debate…


Beijing-led BRICS, US rulers stoke new conflicts

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

The governments of the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — set up as a coalition to challenge Washington’s economic and political supremacy, met in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug. 22-24 to decide their next steps. Their…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

September 14, 1998 DURBAN, South Africa — The 12th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which includes 113 governments, mostly from semicolonial nations oppressed by imperialism, convened here Aug. 29. Cuban president Fidel Castro arrived Sept. 1 to take part in…


SWP campaign takes working-class program to March on Washington

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, Joanne Kuniansky, center, running for New Jersey State Senate, discuss party’s program with participants at march.

WASHINGTON — Over 5,000 marchers turned out here Aug. 26 to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. The action was organized by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute led by the family…


Help get out the ‘Militant,’ books on revolutionary struggle

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

Join us getting the Militant  out as widely as possible, an irreplaceable source of news on unfolding working-class struggles. Every week the paper gets out the truth about union battles like the strike by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and…


What’s the road forward for the working people in the Mideast?

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

Talks toward a diplomatic deal between the rulers of Israel and Saudi Arabia are taking place at the same time that tensions in the Middle East are rising and preparations made for more wars. These conflicts occur amid the unraveling…


As 2024 election looms, Socialist Workers Party is the alternative

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023

The centerpiece of President Joseph Biden’s reelection campaign is denouncing former President Donald Trump and his supporters as “MAGA Republicans” and hailing the four indictments against his Republican opponent. Democrats, Never-Trump Republicans and the middle-class left are determined to drive…


Ex-prisoners make gains on right to vote in Mississippi

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Federal judges in Mississippi ruled 2-1 Aug. 4 to restore voting rights for former felons. Above, from left, former prisoners Wayne Kuhn, Dennis Hopkins, Byron Coleman and Jon O’Neal at press conference in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2018, demanding their right to vote.

In a victory for working people, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Aug. 4, by a 2-1 vote, to end Mississippi’s lifetime ban on the right of ex-felons to vote. The lawsuit under consideration was filed by six…


Amy Belvin: ‘Lifelong commitment to the SWP’

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Display at Aug. 26 meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, showed political work done by Amy Belvin.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — “Amy Belvin was passionate about the fight for a better world,” explained Socialist Workers Party member Amy Husk, one of a number of speakers at the Aug. 26 celebration of her life. Organized by Rev. Brian Chenowith…


Election in Argentina deepens crisis facing working people

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Market in Buenos Aires, Aug. 10, 2022 where customers can pay vendors in rapidly deflating cash or exchange goods through barter. Inflation has gone over 100% annually, one of world’s highest.

Whichever candidate wins the presidential election in Argentina in October will only mean more hardships for working people. In the midst of the deep capitalist crisis shaking the country, the solutions offered by all the capitalist politicians foreshadow belt-tightening measures,…