Pathfinder books sell well at librarians’ national meeting

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

SAN DIEGO — Some 13,500 librarians, authors, illustrators and exhibitors attended the American Library Association annual conference here June 27-July 2, including 340 librarians from 51 other countries. More than 500 exhibitors displayed their wares, including Pathfinder Press. Volunteers at…


SWP candidate brings solidarity to Chabad after attack

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 13 Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, delivered a letter of solidarity to Chabad of Oakland and joined worshipers in a meal there after their Shabbat service. Vandals…


Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Vermont

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Vermont

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, center rear, joined several campaign supporters at the Capitol here July 16 to file 1,138 certified signatures to place Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, and…


Cuba’s socialist revolution is example to workers worldwide

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Fidel Castro delivers Second Declaration of Havana to million-strong assembly of Cuban people Feb. 4, 1962, in the Plaza of the Revolution. It was then presented around the country.

The French edition of  The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. This coincides with the July 26 anniversary…


Imperialism: Epoch of war and revolution

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

Today millions of working people face a harsh reality — the economic, financial and social crises and the devastating world wars of the 20th century haven’t been consigned to history. While the ruling propertied families wield state power, the rapacious…



What LA hotel workers strike accomplished

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

LOS ANGELES — “We struck four times. Most important for me is that health care co-pays were held down,” Rosa Merino, a housekeeper at the Indigo hotel downtown here, told the Militant. She was part of a meeting of 150…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

August 2, 1999 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization held hearings here July 6 on Puerto Rico’s colonial status and approved a resolution supporting that Latin American nation’s right to self-determination, including independence. The committee heard…


‘Workers need to form our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, campaigning at International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 hiring hall in Seattle. She discussed fight against Jew-hatred with crane operator Adeo Tolman, center, and Mark Downs, Fruit supporter and retired longshoreman.

SEATTLE — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, spoke out on the importance of the fight against Jew-hatred at a rally of some 100 people in defense of the existence of Israel July 14…


Shots at Trump are product of liberal frenzy, capitalist crisis

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Armed Secret Service agents guard former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, during FBI raid, Aug. 8, 2022. Inset, throwing flash bang grenades, FBI agents attacked Uhuru Center, African People’s Socialist Party, in St. Louis 10 days earlier.

Thomas Matthew Crooks came within a hair’s breadth of assassinating Donald Trump when he opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at the Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking at a campaign rally of thousands in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13.…