‘I appreciate this book’

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

From the Dominican Republic and on behalf of the Sugarcane Workers Union UTC, we send our appreciation for the writings by George Novack in Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity. We were pleased to read George Novack’s biography (1905-92)…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

April 6, 1998 NEW YORK — “The question of women is permanently on the agenda of the Cuban revolution,” stated Mirtha Hormilla, a member of the permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations, at an event on March 21…


Communists in Iran were in thick of popular revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

Below are excerpts from “Revolution, Counterrevolution and War in Iran, Social and Political Roots of Workers’ Protests That Swept 90 Cities and Small Towns,” from the Militant in April 2018. BY STEVE CLARK The historic Iranian Revolution of 1979 was…


Women wanted to help, to be part of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Graduation of 8,000 “Anitas,” December 1961 in Havana. Young peasant women each received a sewing machine, pledging to teach 10 others how to sew, and to spread the revolution.

To mark International Women’s Day, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. It is by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela…


Bank failures reflect crisis of capitalism

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

The collapse of three regional banks and the underlying fall in the value of U.S. government bonds caused by rising interest rates is a symptom of the ongoing crisis of capitalist production and trade, and a harbinger of further crises…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

March 30, 1998 DES MOINES, Iowa — Members of the United Steelworkers of America rallied in downtown Des Moines March 6 to support members of the United Auto Workers now in contract talks with Case Corp. The protest aimed its…


‘Decisive battles for future of humanity will be fought in the US’

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
Minneapolis Teamsters meet after winning May 1934 strike battle. Cannon said “sweeping movement” that built industrial unions showed revolutionary potential of U.S. working class.

Speeches to the Party: The Revolutionary Perspective and the Revolutionary Party by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. Cannon, then national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, explained the prospects for working-class revolutionary…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

March 23, 1998 Class-conscious fighters must lead opposition to military intervention in Kosovo by Washington and other imperialist powers, whether in the guise of United Nations “peacekeeping” troops, NATO soldiers, the Western European Union, or anything else. Washington and its…


Fight for workers control of the railroads

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023

This statement was released March 1 by Henry Dennison, a rail worker, member of SMART-TD union, and member of the Socialist Workers Party in Seattle. The disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the ongoing damage it is doing…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023

March 16, 1998 One day after the tentative pact between the UAW and Caterpillar was announced, the New York Times opened a front page article with: “In what could be a blow to America’s traditional, smoke-stack worker unions, the United…