Castro: ‘Debt to imperialist banks is unpayable, immoral’

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Banner in Puerto Rico, 2017: “The debt is not ours, it’s the empire’s!” Inset, Fidel Castro speaking Aug. 3, 1985, at “continental dialogue” in Havana, advancing campaign to demand foreign debt of the entire Third World be canceled. It is unpayable, and immoral, given the exploitation of semi-colonial countries by imperialism, he said.

Fidel Castro Speeches 1984-85: War and Crisis in the Americas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. At a time when a new debt crisis is looming, we publish extracts from two interviews Cuban President Fidel Castro…


A road forward amid capitalist world disorder

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

The capitalist rulers in the U.S. triumphantly declared the birth of a “new world order” after they emerged as top dog out of the second imperialist world slaughter in 1945. They declared another giant step forward with the collapse of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

May 24, 1999 The U.S.-organized NATO forces bombed the central market and a hospital in Nis, Yugoslavia, in midday May 7, killing 14 civilians. They blasted the Chinese embassy in downtown Belgrade that night, killing three people. As protests erupted…


Millions turn out to celebrate May Day in Cuba

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Millions turn out to celebrate May Day in Cuba

Millions turned out to celebrate May Day across Cuba, as they have since the Cuban Revolution triumphed. Above, rally in Holguín May 1. In Havana some 200,000 gathered at the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribune square, joined by Army Gen. Raúl…


Richter campaigns with bakery workers in Chicago

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Richter campaigns with bakery workers in Chicago

CHICAGO — Workers changing shifts or on break at Alpha Baking Co. here May 7 talked with Dennis Richter, running mate of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, as he shook hands with workers and campaigned there.…


Railroad, port workers in Canada vote to go on strike

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Canadian National Railway workers picket rail station in Capreol, Ontario, on Nov. 20, 2019, during Teamsters Canada Rail Conference nationwide eight-day strike for safety.

MONTREAL — Some 9,300 freight workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National — Canada’s largest railways — and over 1,200 Montreal port workers have voted by big majorities to strike for better contracts. The rail workers are members…


Rachele Fruit wins support campaigning in Miami

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

MIAMI — Kicking off her presidential campaign tour here May 1, Socialist Workers Party candidate Rachele Fruit joined 150 UNITE HERE hotel, airport food service and airline catering workers and their supporters in a rally at the downtown Stephen P.…


‘Workers need our own party to fight to take political power’

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, campaigns at Little Haiti Book Festival in Miami May 5. She spoke to crowd of 300, with translation into Creole.

Break with the capitalist parties, build a labor party MIAMI — The culmination of Rachele Fruit’s campaign stop here was a public meeting at the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters here on May 5. To begin with, you have to start…


‘I’ve decided to sign up to endorse Rachele Fruit’

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

Supporters of the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, are introducing the party’s working-class program far and wide, urging working people to endorse the campaign, break with the capitalist parties and take steps toward…


Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Gazans arrive in Khan Younis May 6, heeding Israeli instructions to evacuate east Rafah and not get caught in Israeli attack on Hamas, which hides its bases in residential areas. IDF distributed thousands of flyers, sent text messages urging evacuation to avoid civilian casualties.

Israeli tanks and troops entered Rafah May 6, taking control over the border crossing on the Gaza side of the Egyptian border, attacking other military targets and taking out 20 Hamas troops. Israeli forces dropped tens of thousands of leaflets…