Richter: ‘We need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Nelson Salgado, left, at truck stop in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Sept. 22, told Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, that he agreed with him that workers need to take power.

PAULSBORO, N.J. — “I thought it was ‘We, the people’ who are supposed to be in charge,” trucker Santiago Corpus told Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, when he campaigned at a long-haul truck stop here Sept.…


Join, build Oct. 7 actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The fight against Jew-hatred is a key question everywhere. It will be decisive to all working-class battles today against the brutal consequences for humanity of imperialism in decline. That’s why working people everywhere should join actions marking the one-year anniversary…


‘Program must lead proletariat to the conquest of power’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
V.I. Lenin, front left, with delegates to Second Congress of Communist International, July 19, 1920. Under his leadership, Bolsheviks led Russian workers and peasants to power, setting worldwide example of kind of party, program and strategy needed for a socialist revolution.

The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Parts of this book and important new material has been published in a new book, The Turn to…


Fruit visits memorial to Black rights fighter Fred Shuttlesworth

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Fred Shuttlesworth’s home in Birmingham after it was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan Dec. 25, 1956.

Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, visited the Fred Shuttlesworth Archive at the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati Sept. 21. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was a leader of the mass proletarian movement that overturned Jim Crow segregation…


White Houses uses ‘Foreign Agent’ law to target political opponents

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
FBI agents raid home of Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, later Trump adviser, Aug. 7 after seizing his passport as he boarded plane for tour in Russia. U.S. rulers use Foreign Agents” act, FBI to attack constitutional right to free speech and association.

The Democrats are dealing blows to sorely needed constitutional freedoms with their barrage of prosecutions aimed at stopping Donald Trump from regaining the White House in 2024. Alongside this, they’re stepping up use of the FBI — the capitalist rulers’…


Richter: ‘We need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

EAST POINT, Ga. — Several striking Communications Workers of America members on the picket line here welcomed Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Sept. 13. They explained why more than 17,000 CWA members who work for…


Moscow’s deadly war in Ukraine demoralizes Russian troops

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

Ukrainian forces launched a second incursion into the Russian Federation Sept. 12, 20 miles west of their thrust into the Kursk region five weeks earlier. Ukrainian tanks and troops took the town of Vesoloe, again scatterng poorly prepared and unmotivated…


Democrats, Republicans: twin parties of the capitalist rulers

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Rail union members protest in Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2022, after Biden, bipartisan Congress imposed rail contract and banned planned strike. “What’s needed is for workers to take political power into our own hands,” said Joanne Kuniansky, left, SWP 2024 candidate for Senate.

With the Nov. 5 election just about six weeks away, the capitalist rulers are redoubling their efforts to convince working people we have no choice but to hold our nose and pick the “lesser evil” between Vice President Kamala Harris…


Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

NEW YORK — Independent truckers active in a fight for better pay and working conditions in the oil-producing Permian Basin, in western Texas, traveled here to hold a protest outside the headquarters of investment management company BlackRock Sept. 18. They…