Pathfinder expands titles accessible to blind workers

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

More than 50 Pathfinder Press books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders are now available in formats accessible to readers who are blind or face other obstacles to reading. Several years ago, Pathfinder launched a project to convert…


Ceasefire marks Israeli gains against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Rightist gangs in organized “Jew-hunt” in Amsterdam Nov. 7. Pro-Hamas thugs beat up Jewish soccer fans as Dutch police stood by. The pogrom in the heart of “democratic” imperialist Europe shows that the fight against Jew-hatred is vital for the working class worldwide.

The Israeli and Lebanese governments announced a ceasefire Nov. 26, which was signed onto by the leaders in Tehran and by Hezbollah. The agreement — if honored — is an advance for Israel’s fight to defend its existence as a…


UK farmers protest new taxes as input costs soar, income falls

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Thousands of farmers, their families and supporters from across U.K. rally in London Nov. 19 against government imposition of new farm taxes. Farmers face rising costs, lower income.

LONDON — Over 10,000 farmers, their families and supporters came from across the U.K. to rally outside Parliament Nov. 19. They demanded the government scrap its imposition of a 20% inheritance tax on farms valued at more than 1 million…


Meeting celebrates life, political contributions of Jim Altenberg

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Norton Sandler, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party in Los Angeles, speaking at meeting in San Leandro, California, Nov. 16, celebrating the political life of Jim Altenberg.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The life and political contributions of Jim Altenberg and the Socialist Workers Party were celebrated at a meeting here Nov. 16. Altenberg died Oct. 31 at age 70. Talks, displays and messages to the meeting highlighted…


Buffalo Milk-Bone workers stand tall in strike for wages, health care

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Rally at Smucker’s in Orrville, Ohio, Nov. 20. Company owns Milk-Bone in Buffalo, where BCTGM Local 36G is on strike. Inset, special pro-union cookies brought to the picket line.

Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G have been on strike at J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone dog treat factory in Buffalo, New York, since Oct. 28. They’re demanding a significant wage increase and affordable health care…


NZ rally shows Maori pride, growing class differentiation

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Rally by 40,000 people in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, Nov. 19, showed indigenous Maori people’s pride in their gains. Action was called by Maori Party and backed by Labour, other opposition parties. None act to advance interests of Maori and of all working people.

One of the largest rallies in years took place in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, Nov. 19. It was widely reported in media around the world as a protest for Maori rights. The rally of up to 40,000 was organized by…


After Trump win, Democrats shift assault on political rights

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

From the moment Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2016, the Democrats and their liberal allies in the media and the middle-class left have targeted him. More importantly, they’ve targeted the millions of workers Hillary Clinton famously…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024

December 13, 1999 MIAMI — A political debate is taking place here around the future of a five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, who survived a boat smuggling tragedy. U.S. officials have given him residency over the objections of his father…


Workers: Negligence caused Louisville factory blast

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Residents in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 18 confront bosses at Givaudan Sense Colour after deadly factory explosion.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “I felt, heard and saw this massive plume of yellow smoke and debris go hundreds of feet in the air right outside my window,” Hannah Nitzken told WHAS-TV News, describing the Nov. 12 explosion at the Givaudan…


‘Only social revolution can sweep clean a path for a new culture’

Vol. 88/No. 46 - December 9, 2024
Co-authors of “Manifesto for an independent revolutionary art,” from left, André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, in Mexico City in 1938 on the eve of the Second World War.

What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Breton founded the surrealist movement, an influential current in literature and art, 100 years ago. In 1925, he defended Russian revolutionary leaders…