25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

February 5, 1993 Another battle in the fight to defend women’s right to abortion has been waged in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of pro-choice activists successfully mobilized against Operation Rescue’s attempt to shut down abortion clinics in that city January 23.…


Communist League: Celebrate victory over frame-up!

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

The following statement was released Jan. 21 by John Steele, spokesperson for the Communist League in Canada. Working people across the country and beyond should celebrate the Jan. 19 “not guilty” verdicts in the frame-up trial of locomotive engineer Tom…


SWP: Jew-hatred is poison to working class

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt on the poison of Jew-hatred in the working class and fights for national liberation from the introduction by Socialist Workers Party leader Norton Sandler to Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible?Copyright © 2016 by Pathfinder Press.…


How Russian communists led 1950s strikes in Stalin’s camps

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Vorkuta (1950-53): Oppositional currents and the mine strikes” from Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The author, Brigitte Gerland, an East German communist, spent some eight…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

January 29, 1993 The cowardly bombing of Iraq by U.S. military forces, with some help from Britain and France, is a brutal violation of that nation’s sovereignty. Washington is asserting it has the right to lash out at will against…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

The article titled ‘I Urge You, Go See for Yourself the Truth of Cuba’s Revolution’ in the Jan. 1 Militant says that influenza, a viral illness, is treated with antibiotics and steroids in the U.S. This is incorrect. Antibiotics are…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

January 22, 1993 CARDIFF, Wales — Amid jubilation by their supporters, three men framed up nearly five years ago, known as the Cardiff Three, were freed December 10 by the Court of Appeal in London. The three — Tony Paris,…


To rule, the working class must master all past culture

Vol. 82/No. 2 - January 15, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Culture and Socialism,” an essay in Art and Revolution by Leon Trotsky, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Trotsky was one of the central leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution. The essay is based…


The capitalist rulers face a deepening political crisis

Vol. 82/No. 2 - January 15, 2018

Below is an excerpt from the political resolution adopted at the Dec. 16-17 Communist League congress. It is from the section titled, “The rulers’ deepening political crisis.” The post-World War II imperialist relations and structures are becoming unstable and undependable;…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 2 - January 15, 2018

January 15, 1993 NORTH BATTLEFORD, Saskatchewan — Some 3,000 farmers braved bitter cold to fill a hockey arena in this rural Canadian city December 17 in a rally to demand government action on the farm income crisis. The action followed…