Philadelphia Aramark workers strike for better wages, benefits

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — “We want to be treated fairly and with respect,” Lori Gibson, one of hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 274 members on the picket line here on strike against Aramark April 25, told the Militant. They were picketing at…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…


Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

SWP campaign stands for independent working-class political action
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

We urge our readers to endorse Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. There is no other choice you can make that will advance toward a break with the capitalist parties and a step toward independent working-class…


The revolutionary potential of the working class in the US

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Kentucky teachers walk out in protest in April 2018 inspired by victory two months earlier in West Virginia by teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, who won raises for all state employees. Actions pointed to social movement needed to fight for interests of all working people.

The French edition of In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It features the talk Waters gave at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized…


Hamas boosters ‘protest’ on campuses, say ‘Destroy Israel’

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pro-Hamas building takeover at Columbia University April 30. Organizers of actions are increasingly open that their goal is to destroy Israel, support killing or expulsion of Jews there.

So-called Gaza Solidarity Encampments, first set up April 17 at the Ivy League Columbia University in New York by supporters there of the reactionary Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews, have spread to a number of other elite campuses in…


Fighting Jew-hatred: continuity of the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The following excerpt is from Chapter 5 of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. The book describes the continuity of the movement in the fight against Jew-hatred going back more…


Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party nominated Dennis Richter as its vice presidential candidate April 29. Due to health considerations that need attention over the next several months, Margaret Trowe, who had been the party’s candidate, will no longer be able to…


Shifts in world politics boost interest in Pathfinder books

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pathfinder booth at Los Angeles book festival April 20-21 at University of Southern California.

LOS ANGELES — “Books by revolutionary working-class leaders” read the banner over the Pathfinder Books booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held over the April 20-21 weekend on the University of Southern California campus. The booth was…


Russia’s socialist revolution posed the road forward everywhere

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Delegates to the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 1920. “Soviet Russia is the fortress of the world revolution,” James P. Cannon said. It “inspires and strengthens the movement of the workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.”

The Left Opposition in the U.S.: Writings and Speeches, 1928-31 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Cannon was won to the political course of the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Bolshevik…


The opening guns of World War III

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The U.S. rulers’ 1991 war on Iraq, and their inability to decisively win it, sounded the opening guns of World War III. It announced that the world order born out of Washington’s emergence as the top dog in World War…