February 1, 1999 President William Clinton repeated in his State of the Union address a favorite theme of bourgeois politicians: that Social Security may be bankrupt within a few decades because a bigger section of the population is living longer…
January 25, 1999 The Clinton administration is on the offensive to get Black farmers to quit their struggle against discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Capitalist newspapers across the country are carrying stories presenting the consent decree signed by…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is the French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara. In August 1983 a popular revolutionary government arose from…
January 18, 1999 At 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed dictator of Cuba, fled the country in face of the advancing forces of the Rebel Army. Speaking over Radio Rebelde from the outskirts of the eastern…
Helen Ayres, a long-time member and supporter of the Communist League in New Zealand, died in Auckland Dec. 25 at 86. Ayres was drawn into political activity as a trade unionist and campaigner for women’s rights in the mid-1970s after…
Malcolm X Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The book contains an interview and four talks given to young people in Ghana, the U.K. and the United States in the last months…
This statement by Socialist Workers Party National Campaign Director John Studer was issued Dec. 20. In a 4-3 ruling by Colorado’s all-Democratic-Party-appointed Supreme Court Dec. 19, Donald Trump was barred from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in 2024. It…
Wars in the imperialist epoch are an inevitable product of the natural workings of a system founded on exploitation and oppression. The death, destruction and suffering wars cause are hated by the working class that always bears the consequences. Nonetheless,…
January 11, 1999 LONDON — Thirty days after being sacked for a one-day strike, workers at the Skychef catering company at Heathrow airport are still standing firm. “We’re going to win it and that’s the end of the story,” said…
December 28, 1998 We urge all working people to join in campaigning against the murderous, imperial assault Washington has unleashed against the people of Iraq, demanding, “Stop the bombing now! Hands off Iraq! All U.S. troops and inspectors out of…
