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Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, is working-class alternative to both Biden and Trump
Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for president, center, introduces the party’s program at International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall in Miami Feb. 25.

The future of humanity depends on building a leadership, a party, that can mobilize the working class in our millions to take state power away from the capitalist rulers and place it into our own hands, to start down the…


Forum: Growing protests advance the fight against Jew-hatred today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
From left, Columbia professor Shai Davidai, SWP N.J. senatorial candidate Joanne Kuniansky, chair Willie Cotton, Columbia social work student Ariana Pinsker-Lehrer, and Militant staff writer Seth Galinsky at March 10 Militant Labor Forum, “The fight against Jew-hatred today.”

NEW YORK — Sixty people attended a Militant Labor Forum here March 10 to address “The fight against Jew-hatred today. Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews.” Speakers included Columbia University Professor Shai Davidai; Seth Galinsky, a…


Conditions facing women unionists in Ukraine today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

“The expansionist war of the Russian regime has ruined the lives of millions of Ukrainians, deprived them of their homes and forced them to seek safety and shelter in other regions of Ukraine and beyond its borders,” the Confederation of…


Navalny funeral turnout shows opposition to Putin

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

In the largest political protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine since it began over two years ago, thousands gathered for the Moscow funeral of Alexei Navalny March 1. For days after, they…


Carl Skoglund: lifelong communist, ‘old guard’ union fighter

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544’s executive board meeting in November 1937. From left, Farrell Dobbs, Grant Dunne, Carl Skoglund, V.R. Dunne, Miles Dunne, Jack Smith, Bill Brown. Skoglund, Cannon said, “played a big role” in victorious 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Speeches for Socialism by James P. Cannon. Below is an excerpt from Cannon’s talk at a January 1961 Los Angeles meeting celebrating the life of Carl Skoglund. Both had been…


SWP program to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

U.S. bosses and their government are fond of telling us that an expanding capitalist economy is like a rising tide, it “lifts all boats.” This flies in the face of what workers experience in real life. “Record profits weren’t enough…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

March 22, 1999 CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors finished presenting their case in the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican independence activist José Solís Jordán here March 8. Solís faces charges in connection with the placing of two bombs outside a military…


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SWP presidential campaign launched at Oakland meeting
Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit presents party’s program. Left, Laura Garza, SWP candidate for Senate, Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for vice president.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The launching of the 2024 Socialist Workers Party campaign in California was greeted with enthusiasm at a packed hall here when Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for president, and vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe spoke March 2.…


UN admits Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas included rape, torture

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

It took five long months, but the United Nations office that supposedly fights against “conflict-related sexual violence” finally issued a report March 4 that admits there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that rape and gang rape by Hamas forces was…