Australian construction workers fight to defend their union

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

SYDNEY — Chanting “Union Power!” more than 5,000 construction and other building trades workers marched through the central city here Sept. 18 protesting the Labor government’s takeover of the construction workers’ union. Tens of thousands also marched in Melbourne, and…


SWP begins fall campaign to expand reach of the party

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Ezequiel Olmedo, left, a farmworker in Sunnyside, Washington, discusses the SWP campaign program with Vincent Auger, SWP candidate for governor of Washington, Aug. 12.

On Sept. 21 the Socialist Workers Party began its fall campaign. Over the next eight weeks leading up to and immediately following the presidential election SWP members will expand the reach of the party, its presidential ticket of Rachele Fruit…


‘Fight Against Jew-Hatred’ big seller at Fete de l’Humanite

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
'Fight Against Jew-Hatred’ big seller at Fete de l’Humanite

BRTIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — Record numbers of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries were sold at Pathfinder Press booth at this year’s Fete de l’Humanite Sept. 13-15. The annual event is organized by the French Communist Party. Hundreds…


Study, use SWP victory against FBI

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

Under capitalism all the trappings of government — from the White House to the state houses, the courts of all stripes, and regulatory and other nonelected agencies, to the FBI and cops — serve the interests of the ruling capitalist…


Richter: ‘We need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Nelson Salgado, left, at truck stop in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Sept. 22, told Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, that he agreed with him that workers need to take power.

PAULSBORO, N.J. — “I thought it was ‘We, the people’ who are supposed to be in charge,” trucker Santiago Corpus told Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, when he campaigned at a long-haul truck stop here Sept.…


Join, build Oct. 7 actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The fight against Jew-hatred is a key question everywhere. It will be decisive to all working-class battles today against the brutal consequences for humanity of imperialism in decline. That’s why working people everywhere should join actions marking the one-year anniversary…


‘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…