Build worker-farmer alliance to fight for our class interests

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023
Socialist Workers Party members Ellie García and Joel Britton with farmer Will Scott in Fresno, California. Britton participated in National Farmers Union convention, talked to working farmers about need for a labor party, based on the unions and worker-farmer alliance.

Socialist Workers National Campaign Statement issued by Ellie García Feb. 21. Exploited farmers and ranchers face skyrocketing prices for fuel, seed, fertilizer, equipment and other inputs today. At the same time, capitalists reap vast profits from land speculation, driving up…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023

March 9, 1998 NEW YORK — The theme of “100 Years of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism: Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines” drew 200 here Feb. 19. Félix Wilson, first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, explained that…


Corrections

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023

The article “Working People in Ukraine Fight New War Moves from Moscow,” in issue no. 8 should have said Transnistria is an enclave in eastern Moldova, not western Moldova.


1918: Soviet forces liberate Ukraine, inspire fighters worldwide

Vol. 87/No. 9 - March 6, 2023
Red Army troops welcomed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 1917. Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 put Russian workers and peasants in power, ended Russian involvement in World War I, put an end to czar’s “prison house of nations,” forming Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Under V.I. Lenin, Trotsky was a central leader of the Russian Revolution, including as foreign minister of the young Soviet…


Cuba’s working people made a socialist revolution, set example for all

Vol. 87/No. 8 - February 27, 2023
Fidel Castro greets residents of Colón, Cuba, Jan. 7, 1959, as Rebel Army forces head to Havana after victory, to reach out to the tens of thousands of toilers who wanted to join the revolution.

Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Guevara, at Fidel Castro’s side, became one of the central leaders of the world-changing 1959 Cuban Revolution. He describes…


Defend independence of Ukraine!

Vol. 87/No. 8 - February 27, 2023

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, Feb. 15.  A year ago on Feb. 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine, expecting to rapidly conquer Kyiv, the capital, arrest and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 8 - February 27, 2023

March 2, 1998 William Jefferson Clinton, in his second inaugural speech proclaimed the United States “the world’s indispensable nation.” The message is that Washington — acting unilaterally and relying more and more on military force — will target for brutal…


Malcolm X: ‘It is impossible for capitalism to survive’

Vol. 87/No. 7 - February 20, 2023
Malcolm X, right, meets with Fidel Castro at Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York, Sept. 19, 1960. The Cuban Revolution “overturned the system” Malcolm explained in 1963.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X. An outstanding leader of the struggle for Black rights in the U.S. who also emerged as a leader of the international working class,…


A working-class road to end cop brutality

Vol. 87/No. 7 - February 20, 2023

The following statement was released Feb. 6 by Lisa Potash, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Georgia in 2022. Working people across the country were outraged when they saw the video of cops in Memphis savagely stun with…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 7 - February 20, 2023

February 23, 1998 ST. PAUL, Minnesota — About 300 Teamster strikers and supporters rallied Feb. 10, across from Honeywell’s plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota. This factory, which employs 1,500 members of Teamsters Local 1145, and two other area plants of…