Hearing on Florida prison ban on ‘Militant’ is set for July 18

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed Militant attorney David Goldstein it has scheduled an “initial review” July 18 on the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant issue no. 17 by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone,…


‘Telling truth about Holocaust aids fight
against Jew-hatred’

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Julius Wolff, who was Jewish, and his non-Jewish fiancée, Christine Neumann, being paraded through Norden, Germany, by Nazi thugs in 1935. Wolff was forced to carry sign saying, “I am a race defiler.”

NORDEN, Germany — A trip I made to Germany in early July brought home how alive the legacy of the Nazi Holocaust remains here, and its relevance given the rise of Jew-hatred worldwide, especially after Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, which…


Socialist Workers Party campaign is only voice for the working class

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, introduces campaign to Robert Gray in Vermont July 9. So far 1,474 people have signed to put party on the ballot there.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a hot, muggy afternoon July 9, Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaigners here outside a Hannaford supermarket. He met Robert Gray, a telephone lineman from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, who…


Capitalist exploitation fuels debt crisis wracking Africa

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Nigeria Labour Congress protest in Lagos Feb. 27 against government attacks on living conditions. Facing growing debt crisis, capitalist rulers across Africa are targeting working people.

Tens of thousands of Kenyans took to the streets last month to protest government moves to raise taxes to meet growing debts to foreign lenders and to appease the International Monetary Fund. Capitalist rulers throughout Africa face the same crisis. …


Texas prison guards indicted for killing of inmate

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. held a press conference July 2 announcing they had won an important victory with the June 25 indictment of two Tarrant County jailers for the murder of their son. Johnson,…


Demand freedom for Leonard Peltier!

Framed by FBI, jailed for 5 decades
Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

On July 2 the U.S. federal Parole Commission once again denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole. The hearing, the first in over a decade, took place June 10.  Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been in federal…


SWP candidates file for ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
SWP candidates file for ballot in Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Socialist Workers Party leaders John Benson and Susan LaMont, above, filed to put the party’s presidential ticket — Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president — on the ballot July 8. They turned in…


Israelis face growing threats, attacks from Hezbollah

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

In one of the largest barrages yet, Hezbollah launched 200 rockets and mortars and more than 20 drones from Lebanon into northern Israel July 4, killing one Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and setting fires as far away as…


How Minneapolis Teamsters organized to win strikes in 1934

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Minneapolis cops use tear gas against 10,000 unemployed workers protesting April 6, 1934. Teamsters strikes showed how to organize to win, electrifying broad masses of working people.

Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It is the story of the Teamsters’ organizing drive in Minneapolis where rank-and-file workers won hard-fought strikes in 1934, defeating combined strikebreaking efforts by the…