Democrats’ attack on constitutional rights is threat to working people

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

The Democrats’ frantic drive to get compliant judges to throw Donald Trump in jail before November’s election is bumping into some constitutional challenges. And millions of working people can see a presidential candidate is being charged for things that are…


Fight against Jew-hatred is crucial for the working class

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

Hamas’ international propaganda machine — promoted by middle-class leftists worldwide — keeps churning out lies that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, that people there are on the verge of starvation, that no women were raped by Hamas Oct. 7…


Rail workers in Canada fight for a new contract, safe work conditions

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
During 2018 strike by 3,000 rail workers, unionists picketed Canadian Pacific in Montreal. Some 9,300 unionists at Canada’s two biggest rail companies are voting on strike action in May.

MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…


Crisis of capitalism rattles regimes in Latin America, hits toilers hard

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

Amid the economic and political crisis of capitalism, accelerated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, conflicts and threats between regimes across Latin America have grown. This was highlighted in an…


Australia’s rulers blocked entry to Jews before, during, after WWII

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Crowd of 1,000 outside Sydney Opera House Oct. 9 celebrating Tehran-backed Hamas’ deadly pogrom in Israel two days earlier. Some demonstrators set off flares, chanted “Gas the Jews.”

SYDNEY — The deadly Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas and Tehran against Jews in Israel triggered a wave of Jew-hatred across Australia. Hamas supporters here celebrated the bloodbath Oct. 8 and 9 and chanted against Jews. Physical assaults, verbal abuse…


Shifts in world politics boost interest in Pathfinder books

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pathfinder booth at Los Angeles book festival April 20-21 at University of Southern California.

LOS ANGELES — “Books by revolutionary working-class leaders” read the banner over the Pathfinder Books booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held over the April 20-21 weekend on the University of Southern California campus. The booth was…


Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party nominated Dennis Richter as its vice presidential candidate April 29. Due to health considerations that need attention over the next several months, Margaret Trowe, who had been the party’s candidate, will no longer be able to…


Fighting Jew-hatred: continuity of the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The following excerpt is from Chapter 5 of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. The book describes the continuity of the movement in the fight against Jew-hatred going back more…


Hamas boosters ‘protest’ on campuses, say ‘Destroy Israel’

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pro-Hamas building takeover at Columbia University April 30. Organizers of actions are increasingly open that their goal is to destroy Israel, support killing or expulsion of Jews there.

So-called Gaza Solidarity Encampments, first set up April 17 at the Ivy League Columbia University in New York by supporters there of the reactionary Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews, have spread to a number of other elite campuses in…


The revolutionary potential of the working class in the US

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Kentucky teachers walk out in protest in April 2018 inspired by victory two months earlier in West Virginia by teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, who won raises for all state employees. Actions pointed to social movement needed to fight for interests of all working people.

The French edition of In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It features the talk Waters gave at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized…