Ukraine writer, shot by Putin’s troops, lives on in secret diary

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Author Victoria Amelina near tree where she dug up diary about Russian occupation by Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children’s book writer. He had buried it before being murdered. Amelina published it in 2023 before she was herself killed by a Russian airstrike.

The story of a Ukrainian author, Volodymyr Vakulenko, executed by invading Russian forces in March 2022 — and the discovery and publication of his hidden journal by his father and a fellow writer — sheds light on the depth of…


Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Growing numbers in Iran — including prisoners, retirees and unionists — are demanding an end to the death penalty. “Execution is a medieval and irreversible sentence that can never improve the conditions of society,” Reza Sadeghi wrote July 25 on…


How U.S. troops turned against Washington’s war in Vietnam

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Active-duty GIs and retired general, center, lead 500 military personnel in San Francisco anti-Vietnam War protest Oct. 12, 1968. Growing opposition by troops helped win millions of workers at home to turn against the war.

Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. As the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 1968, Halstead, who had…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

August 16, 1999 Thousands of working people, youth, soldiers, and others have hit the streets in cities and towns throughout Serbia. They are taking advantage of the first openings since the U.S./NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia began March 24 to express…


‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Kevin Dwire, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and bakery worker Tyler Hurtgen campaigning at 90th anniversary celebration of 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes. Rafael Espinoza, a union leader during 2001 UFCW organizing drive at Dakota Premium Foods in St. Paul, signs petition to put Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, on the ballot in Minnesota.

Workers across Minnesota sign to put SWP on ballot MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of workers in Minnesota are learning about the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates, Rachele Fruit for U.S. president and Dennis Richter for vice president, as the party…


US rulers stabilize their two parties, SWP wins a hearing

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Striking nurses picket Santa Clara County hospital in Gilroy, California, April 3. More workers are willing to fight today, leading to interest in the Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaign.

In recent weeks the U.S. rulers have succeeded in reestablishing some stability in their two-capitalist-party political setup, with both Democrats and Republicans uniting behind their respective candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. They’re each setting out to rally interest and…


Black sailors exonerated 80 years after port disaster

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Loading ammunition at Port Chicago, California, naval depot. In October 1944, 50 Black enlisted men were court-martialed for “mutiny” for refusing to return to jobs after explosion there killed 320 people. Inset, Dec. 2, 1944, Militant editorial denouncing the verdict.

OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 17 Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced the exoneration of 50 Black sailors who had been tried for mutiny and jailed during World War II. The announcement came on the 80th anniversary of a huge…


Israelis face threat of wider war by Tehran and Hezbollah

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Sign held by Hamas supporter at Washington protest against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to Congress July 24, shows “anti-Zionism” is simply Jew-hatred in the Nazi tradition.

Hezbollah’s missile attack on Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-ruled Golan Heights, killed 12 Druze Arab boys and girls and wounded 16 more at a soccer field July 27. The barbaric attack by the Tehran-backed group has increased the threat of…


Congress discusses upgrading the draft and conscription of women

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Exhausted U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1967. Washington’s 15-year war ended as opposition grew in the working class and among GIs, demonstrations spread. Protests also targeted the draft.

Since the watershed in world politics marked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the explosion of Jew-hatred on the heels of the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom that killed over 1,200 people, mostly Jews, in Israel, capitalist governments worldwide…


Over 20,000 Boeing workers vote to authorize a strike in contract fight

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

SEATTLE — More than 20,000 Boeing workers, members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, met here at the Mariners Major League Baseball stadium July 17 and voted by over 99% to strike if they don’t have…