Speeches to the Party: The Revolutionary Perspective and the Revolutionary Party by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. Cannon, then national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, explained the prospects for working-class revolutionary…
March 23, 1998 Class-conscious fighters must lead opposition to military intervention in Kosovo by Washington and other imperialist powers, whether in the guise of United Nations “peacekeeping” troops, NATO soldiers, the Western European Union, or anything else. Washington and its…
LONDON — Celia Pugh, a 50-year veteran of the communist movement, died March 4 after a long illness. She was 70. Pugh was a founding member of the Communist League in 1988 and served on its Central Committee. She joined…
HAVANA — Young socialists from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom were invited by Cuban youth organizations for an exchange with students here Feb. 17. The lively back-and-forth took up an array of topics. The students were particularly…
ATHENS, Greece — Outraged at bosses’ disregard for the lives of workers and passengers, thousands of trade unionists and others rallied outside parliament here March 5. Called by rail unions, student and other organizations, the action protested the government’s responsibility…
Bosses at hospitals in rural areas are shuttering maternity wards, claiming it’s no longer profitable to maintain them. This throws into disarray the health and lives of millions of women, their families and their newborn babies. The employers’ actions come…
CAMDEN, N.J. — Some 130 striking sanitation workers here, members of Teamsters Local 115, voted 64-41 March 5 to accept Waste Management’s latest contract offer and returned to work three days later. On strike since Jan. 31, “we pushed the…
Moscow’s yearlong assault on Ukraine, the first major shooting war on European soil in more than 75 years, has caused deepening shocks to the “world order” put together by the U.S. ruling class after it emerged as top dog at…
This statement was released March 1 by Henry Dennison, a rail worker, member of SMART-TD union, and member of the Socialist Workers Party in Seattle. The disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the ongoing damage it is doing…
March 16, 1998 One day after the tentative pact between the UAW and Caterpillar was announced, the New York Times opened a front page article with: “In what could be a blow to America’s traditional, smoke-stack worker unions, the United…
