‘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’…


Democrats move to block third parties from the ballot

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The heart of the Democrats’ campaign for president this year is their full-throated attack on Donald Trump as a dictatorial ultrarightist. The Washington Post headlined Catherine Rampell’s Sept. 24 column, “Don’t scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump’s rhetoric is that…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

October 11, 1999 Hurricane Floyd has brought disaster in its wake for tens of thousands of working people from North Carolina to New Jersey. At least 50 people have died, and 20,000 have been driven from their homes in the…


‘Workers gain confidence in the heat of the class struggle’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, spoke at a campaign event here Sept. 21 that drew 21 people. One of the central questions he addressed was the need for working people to organize independently…


Counterrevolution in Iran led to formation of Hezbollah in Lebanon

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

Unlike Hamas, whose roots are in Egypt’s Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and its collaboration with the Nazis during World War II, Hezbollah was a direct creation of the regime that took power through a counterrevolution in Iran after pushing back the…



Pathfinder welcomed at Federation of Blind convention

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Discussions at Pathfinder Press booth at 2024 National Federation of the Blind convention in Orlando, Florida. Volunteers introduced Pathfinder books available in Braille and large print.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Federation of the Blind held its annual convention here. These conventions are the largest gatherings worldwide of blind and low vision people, their families, friends and supporters. This year, some 2,600 registered in person and…