NY Proposition 1 is threat to rights, ploy to boost Democrats

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado at primary election night party, June 28, 2022, in New York. Democratic-backed Proposition 1, falsely posed as a road to expand political rights, is in reality the opposite, a “woke” move to strengthen capitalist politics.

NEW YORK — Proposition 1, often referred to by its Democratic Party boosters as the “Equal Rights Amendment” or the “Equal Protection of the Law Amendment,” will be on the ballot in New York Nov. 5. The measure is being…


Locked out for four months, Prelco unionists stand firm

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

MONTREAL — Over 100 locked-out Prelco workers and their supporters gathered in front of this industrial glass manufacturer here Oct. 18 for a solidarity concert and food. The 90 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) have been…


Unionists help prevent closure of New York state birth center

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. — At the Capital District Area Labor Federation’s Annual Gala Oct. 11, Save the Burdett Birth Center Coalition received the federation’s Solidarity Award. Ashley Saupp, a leader of the coalition, said they could not have succeeded without the…


Hundreds of United flight attendants demand new contract

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Members of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, supporters picket United Airlines headquarters in Chicago Oct. 17 in fight for contract, sizable wage raise, pay for all time worked.

CHICAGO —Some 500 Association of Flight Attendants-CWA members at United Airlines and their supporters ringed the Willis Tower in Chicago’s downtown in a spirited picket line that stretched for four blocks Oct. 17. The skyscraper — formerly known as the…


Philadelphia rail worker endorses SWP campaign

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, sat down with Victor Guzman during her campaign stop here, Oct. 16. Guzman is a freight rail conductor and member of the SMART-TD union. He met with Fruit…



US presses Ukraine to settle as toilers defend nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Ukrainian troops inspect crashed Iranian-made drone. Moscow has targeted Ukraine with 8,000 drones since 2022. Even with 90% shot down, thousands of civilian casualties resulted.

Ukrainian working people are at the forefront of the fight to resist Moscow’s assault on their national sovereignty. But they also confront efforts by Washington and its allies to pressure the Ukrainian government to end its resistance. Moscow’s invasion has…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

November 8, 1999 DES MOINES — A fund-raising meeting to aid in the production and distribution of the titles printed and distributed by Pathfinder Press was held here October 23. The featured speaker was Migdalia Jiménez, a member of the…



Pathfinder was born with the October 1917 revolution in Russia

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
V.I. Lenin, leader of Bolshevik Party that led Russian workers, peasants in world’s first socialist revolution, speaks in Moscow in May 1920. Standing next to podium is Leon Trotsky. Pathfinder distributes works by Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Malcolm X, Evelyn Reed and many others.

Pathfinder Was Born with the October Revolution by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpts below are based on Waters’ presentation to a conference on “Political and Social Publishing in the 1990s,” held…