Trotsky: ‘Our hope rests on unleashing the European revolution’

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023
Leon Trotsky, commander of the Soviet army after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, addresses Red Guard combatants in 1918. The Bolsheviks, Trotsky said, pinned their hopes on the Russian Revolution inspiring toilers across Europe to emulate their example and take political power.

Leon Trotsky Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt is from “The Organization of Power,” Trotsky’s Oct. 26, 1917, defense of the Bolshevik Revolution, which he helped lead. The Second Congress of the Soviets,…


Unions need to fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, Nov. 21. The systematic slaughter of 1,200 Jews by Hamas, backed by the counterrevolutionary regime in Tehran Oct. 7 marks a watershed in world politics, accelerating the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

December 7, 1998 During the sixth national congress of the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba, held in Havana November 5-7, Cuban President Fidel Castro talked with journalists from the Cuban press. “In Cuba we had to create a…


‘Militant’ editor: Special features coming up

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

The Militant  will be presenting a series of special features related to unfolding events in world politics following the slaughter carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas in Israel Oct. 7. The first is the article by Roy Landersen in this issue…


Crises today draw workers into world politics

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023

Statement by Naomi Craine, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Illinois, Nov. 15. Hamas’ bloody pogrom in Israel, orchestrated by Tehran, was the most deadly massacre of Jews since the Nazi extermination of 6 million people in the…



Road to end Jew-hating violence is for workers to take power

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023
In 1939 hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution on the ship St. Louis were forced back to Europe after Washington and Ottawa denied them entry. Many died in the Holocaust. Imperialist powers bar on Jews before, during, after the war helped lead to creation of Israel.

Below is an excerpt from the review of the new edition of   The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon published in the Feb. 1, 2021, issue of the Militant. It has been updated since Hamas’ Oct. 7…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023

November 30, 1998 PITTSBURGH — The return of UN “inspectors” to Baghdad — under the guise of “hunting for weapons of mass destruction” — sets the stage for more provocations, which Washington will use as a pretext to launch a…


Bolsheviks set example in building a revolutionary workers party

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023
Petrograd Soviet meets in September 1917 as working-class support for Bolshevik Party expands, culminating in Russian Revolution. Socialist Workers Party is being built along the same course, forging a revolutionary working-class party in program and composition to take power.

The French edition of The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the November Books of the Month from Pathfinder Press. It explains that working people will only truly…