Richter: ‘Glencoe native running for vice president’

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Dennis Richter by Owen Elle, editor of the weekly McLeod County Chronicle published in Minnesota. The article ran on the front page May 24. Glencoe native Dennis Richter is running as…


Rail worker endorses Rachele Fruit for president

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

As a Militant reader for some time, I’ve been following the campaign of Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president. I endorse her campaign and make a contribution because I agree with her campaign that all working people need our own…


Fruit joins campaigning, fight for ballot status in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rachele Fruit and Socialist Workers Party campaign supporters spent three days here May 20-22 campaigning and petitioning to put the party on the ballot in Tennessee. They collected 104 signatures toward the 375 required, won five endorsers…


Constitutional freedoms are fruit of hard-fought political struggle

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Driven by anti-Trump hysteria, the Joseph Biden White House and Democratic prosecutors are using the courts to try to frame up and drive their main opponent for the presidency out of politics. In doing so, they’re dealing serious blows to…


Ukrainian forces beat back new Moscow attack against Kharkiv

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Facing a new cross-border surge by Moscow’s army in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, the country’s tenacious defenders have pushed the invading forces back. Ukrainian forces have recaptured lost ground in border towns through intense street fighting against Russian…



Imperialist war deepens political crises, revolutionary prospects

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
June 8, 1944, meeting in New York calls for release of 18 SWP, Minneapolis Teamsters leaders. U.S. rulers used Smith “Gag” Act to toss aside constitutionally protected rights to frame up, jail them for leading opposition in labor movement to the rulers’ drive to get in on World War II.

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…