Houthi clan in Yemen was built on hatred of Jews

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

Missile attacks launched by Houthi forces in Yemen on shipping in the Red Sea are aimed at weakening Israel. They hope to get Washington to step up pressure on Israel’s rulers to call a cease-fire in Gaza, putting an end…


Liberal media, left use misquotes to attack Israel

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

Articles in the liberal media and by the middle-class left claim that key Israeli government officials admit their genocidal aim is to wipe out the Palestinians in Gaza. There’s just one small problem. The quotes they use are not what…


Bashkirs protest jailing of native rights fighter

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
Protest Jan. 15 in Baymak, Russia, at jailing of Fail Alsynov, fighter for Bashkir rights against Kremlin’s war, conscription of ethnic minorities.

In one of the biggest outbreaks of social unrest since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, thousands have protested in Baymak, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Baymak is over 850 miles east of Moscow near Russia’s…


Northern Ireland public sector workers in massive one-day strike

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

LONDON — Some 150,000 teachers, health care workers, bus and train drivers, and other public sector workers stopped work Jan. 18 in the largest union day of action in Northern Ireland in decades. Members of 16 unions picketed and joined…


Building a proletarian party is needed to lead struggle for power

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
At left, Socialist Workers Party leaders V.R. Dunne and James P. Cannon lead 15 members of SWP, Teamsters Local 544-CIO to Minneapolis federal courthouse, Dec. 31, 1943, to be taken to prison in frame-up for opposing Washington’s entry into second imperialist world war.

This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The book records the fight to build a party, proletarian in program and composition, that can lead…


Does capitalist crisis mean war is inevitable?

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

As the crisis of the imperialist world “order” deepens and the capitalist rulers worldwide look to build up their militaries and search for new allies, the danger of more wars — and threat of nuclear conflagration — grows. This is…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

February 8, 1999 After a two-week strike and a five-day march toward the capital Bucharest during which they fought pitched battles with the police and military, miners from the Jiu Valley in Romania scored a victory against government attempts to…


Defend right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight to destroy Hamas is in interests of all workers
Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Protest at U.N. World Court in The Hague Jan. 11 as South African rulers’ case charging Israel with ”genocide” opened. Protesters said case is political and legal cover for Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel, which the Tehran-backed outfit says it will do “again and again.”

Tens of thousands joined protests around the world over the Jan. 12 weekend to demand Hamas release all the remaining hostages the Tehran-backed group kidnapped as part of its murderous pogrom in Israel Oct. 7. The protests in London, Paris,…


Prosecution of Israel in the World Court is a frame-up

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Jews deported by train from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944. In the Holocaust, Nazi capitalist rulers in Germany and their allies killed 6 million Jews, a systematic, genocidal state-sponsored mass murder, the scope of which no other people have ever faced.

The South African government is seeking to speak for all those who oppose the existence of Israel. It went before the United Nation’s World Court Jan. 11 to charge Israel with committing genocide against the Palestinian people. The accusation stands…


Panel blown off Boeing airplane shows need to end profit system

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Door-size panel tore off Alaska Airlines plane Jan. 5, forcing emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Threat to passengers, crews is a result of the bosses’ insatiable drive for profits.

The near disaster when a door-sized panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet ripped off in midflight Jan. 5 exposes once again how the bosses’ drive for profits above all else comes at the expense of safety…