Imperialist war deepens political crises, revolutionary prospects

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Meeting of 800 demanding release of 18 members of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters union, who were framed up and imprisoned in 1944-45 for opposing imperialist rulers’ war drive.

The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. In his Oct. 2, 1942, report, “The workers and the Second World War,” excerpted…


FBI is the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Below is an excerpt from the Socialist Workers Party 2022 Political Resolution, printed in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. It describes the consolidation of the FBI as the rulers’ main…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

June 14, 1999 President William Clinton and NATO commanders are continuing their brutal assault on the working class of Yugoslavia. We urge our readers to join in actions demanding an immediate halt to the bombing and the removal of all…




Richter joins locked-out Boeing firefighters’ picket

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter, left, on Boeing firefighters’ picket May 13.

SEATTLE — Dennis Richter, Rachele Fruit’s running mate as Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 members at their picket line outside Boeing’s factory gates here May 13. Some 125 firefighters at…


Join fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Prison officials in Florida have banned an issue of the Militant in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. Aided by the Militant’s attorney, David Goldstein, we are fighting to…


Support Israel’s fight to defeat Hamas, prevent more pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Aftermath of Hamas’ slaughter of 370 Jews and others at Nova music festival in Israel, part of Oct. 7 pogrom that killed 1,200 people overall. More than 40 of the hostages Hamas seized were at the festival. “Everything we do is justified,” says Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad, inset.

With their move into Rafah, Israeli forces are making progress in the fight to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, an absolute necessity to prevent the Tehran-backed group from carrying out its threats to keep massacring Jews “again and again.” Since May…