Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…


Oppose US intervention in Venezuela

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the  winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…


What Hiroshima shows about horrors of nuclear weapons

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…



Rulers in Tehran threaten to widen Middle East war against Israel, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Family, friends at July 28 funeral for 12 Druze children killed day before by Hezbollah missile from Lebanon that hit soccer field in Majdal Shams in Israeli-ruled Golan Heights.

The Israeli people are preparing to defend themselves from threatened new assaults from the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah and other groups in the “axis of resistance.” As the Militant goes to press these attacks…


New Labour Party gov’t in UK turns its back on Jews in Israel

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Jewish immigrants aboard Exodus ship in Haifa Harbor, July 18, 1947. British rulers refused to let them disembark. Stalinist Communist Parties betrayal of openings for revolution in Europe in the 1930s opened the door for Hitler to come to power in Germany; the refusal of Washington and other imperialist powers to allow Jews in; and the cold-blooded murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust led to the formation of Israel as a refuge for Jews in 1948.

LONDON — Fast on the heels of its election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has taken steps to hone its defense of the interests of the U.K.’s capitalist rulers at home and abroad. Within days, Foreign Secretary David…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

August 30, 1999 SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — An estimated 1,200 farmers organized convoys of farm vehicles, tractors, combines, and grain trucks along Saskatchewan highways Aug. 2, causing traffic delays of several hours. Farmers wanted to draw attention to the severe crisis…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

August 16, 1999 Thousands of working people, youth, soldiers, and others have hit the streets in cities and towns throughout Serbia. They are taking advantage of the first openings since the U.S./NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia began March 24 to express…


How U.S. troops turned against Washington’s war in Vietnam

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Active-duty GIs and retired general, center, lead 500 military personnel in San Francisco anti-Vietnam War protest Oct. 12, 1968. Growing opposition by troops helped win millions of workers at home to turn against the war.

Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. As the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 1968, Halstead, who had…