PHILADELPHIA — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, sat down with Victor Guzman during her campaign stop here, Oct. 16. Guzman is a freight rail conductor and member of the SMART-TD union. He met with Fruit…
Below is the preface by Mary-Alice Waters to the new 2024 edition of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Waters, Evelyn Reed and Joseph Hansen, available in December. Waters is a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party…
Ukrainian working people are at the forefront of the fight to resist Moscow’s assault on their national sovereignty. But they also confront efforts by Washington and its allies to pressure the Ukrainian government to end its resistance. Moscow’s invasion has…
Despite attempts by the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran to whip up support among working people for its escalating confrontation with Israel and convince workers now is not the time for protests, growing numbers of workers are taking to the…
MONTREAL — Port and railroad union members in Quebec and across Canada are fighting for better pay to cope with high prices and more livable schedules. On Oct. 7, Longshoremen’s Union Local 375, an affiliate of Canadian Union of Public…
The attempts by liberals and the middle-class left to eradicate Columbus Day, a national holiday in October since 1937, honoring 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus, along with statues and other tributes to Columbus, stepped up this year. These ahistorical political forces…
BOSTON — The “Make them pay!” chants, blaring air horns and drumming of the UNITE HERE Local 26 strikers can be heard blocks away from the Downtown Theater District here. Three weeks into their strike at the Hilton Park Plaza…
PLANT CITY, Fla. — Dennis Richter, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, talks with Plant City farmer Karl Butts, Oct. 17. One hundred mph winds from recent storms wreaked havoc on what only two weeks earlier had…
Pathfinder Was Born with the October Revolution by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpts below are based on Waters’ presentation to a conference on “Political and Social Publishing in the 1990s,” held…
