Join campaign to expand the Militant’s readership

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The international spring campaign to increase the readership of the Militant, get out books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries, and to raise funds for the paper is underway! Join in! Get the paper to your…


Thousands of farmers in India march on New Delhi

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…


Carl Skoglund: lifelong communist, ‘old guard’ union fighter

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544’s executive board meeting in November 1937. From left, Farrell Dobbs, Grant Dunne, Carl Skoglund, V.R. Dunne, Miles Dunne, Jack Smith, Bill Brown. Skoglund, Cannon said, “played a big role” in victorious 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Speeches for Socialism by James P. Cannon. Below is an excerpt from Cannon’s talk at a January 1961 Los Angeles meeting celebrating the life of Carl Skoglund. Both had been…


SWP program to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

U.S. bosses and their government are fond of telling us that an expanding capitalist economy is like a rising tide, it “lifts all boats.” This flies in the face of what workers experience in real life. “Record profits weren’t enough…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

March 22, 1999 CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors finished presenting their case in the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican independence activist José Solís Jordán here March 8. Solís faces charges in connection with the placing of two bombs outside a military…


Join fight against Jew-hatred! SWP: Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump

SWP presidential campaign launched at Oakland meeting
Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit presents party’s program. Left, Laura Garza, SWP candidate for Senate, Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for vice president.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The launching of the 2024 Socialist Workers Party campaign in California was greeted with enthusiasm at a packed hall here when Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for president, and vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe spoke March 2.…


UN admits Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas included rape, torture

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

It took five long months, but the United Nations office that supposedly fights against “conflict-related sexual violence” finally issued a report March 4 that admits there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that rape and gang rape by Hamas forces was…



Attack on Jews at university in Canada pushed back

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

A proposal for the student government, known as the Alma Mater Society, to organize a referendum at the University of British Columbia to evict the Jewish students’ organization Hillel from campus by cancelling its lease, was rejected Feb. 28. After…


Widespread Iran election boycott shows weakness of regime

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

The Iranian government claims that 41% of those eligible voted in the March 1 elections to the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that picks the country’s “Supreme Leader.” But even that figure would be the lowest voter…