Defending protections in US Constitution

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The Democrats yearslong efforts to use the FBI and frame-up court cases to bring down Donald Trump pose serious challenges to the working class. In the course of their attacks, and counterattacks by the Republicans, blows are being dealt to…


Malcolm X led fight for Black liberation and workers power

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Below is an excerpt from a talk by Barnes, national secretary of the…


Defend Israel as a refuge against Jew-hatred and pogroms today

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

The cold-blooded murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in late August is further proof that defeating the Tehran-backed group and demolishing its command structure is essential for defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews. And for…


Monthslong fight continues to end Florida prison ban on ‘Militant’ issue

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

The four-months-long fight continues to end the ban on Militant issue no. 17, imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, at the end of April. The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee upheld the impoundment…


Democrats attack Constitution, weaken checks on gov’t power

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Baltimore March 1870

President Joseph Biden announced proposals July 29 to gut the power of the U.S. Supreme Court and muzzle its justices in an attack on the constitutionally mandated role of the judiciary. Days later, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer deepened the…


US Labor Day actions marked by union battles

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
US Labor Day actions marked by union battles

BY BETSY FARLEY, SARAH ULLMAN and JANICE LYNN Labor Day actions across the country were marked by strikes by 10,000 UNITE HERE hotel workers, 17,000 AT&T workers and other union fights. Hundreds joined the Labor Day parade in Detroit Sept.…




Defend Ukraine independence! Anti-war views spread in Russia

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Workers from Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine at damaged Kapitalna coal mine in Ukraine’s southeast Donetsk region. Russian missile attack Aug. 6 injured several miners.

A month after Ukrainian forces drove into the Kursk region of Russia Aug. 6, opposition to the war is growing among Russian conscripts and their families. The Ukrainian offensive is aimed at dealing blows to Moscow’s invasion led by Russian…


Dennis Richter: ‘Back fights by truckers, all workers!’

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP vice presidential candidate, discusses truckers’ fight for better conditions with Shawnta Hamerter, a truck driver, at truck stop in Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 26.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…