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Correction
Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024In issue no. 20, the headline “Railroad, port workers in Canada vote to go on strike” was incorrect. Montreal port workers overwhelmingly rejected the bosses’ contract offer but unlike the rail workers they have not yet taken a vote to…
Unionists rally on May Day to boost workers’ struggles
Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024Hotel workers and other unionists across the country took the May Day workers’ holiday to hold marches and rallies marking strikes and other fights with the bosses. Below are a few examples. Over 1,000 D.C. hotel workers march on May…
Castro: ‘Debt to imperialist banks is unpayable, immoral’
Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024Fidel Castro Speeches 1984-85: War and Crisis in the Americas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. At a time when a new debt crisis is looming, we publish extracts from two interviews Cuban President Fidel Castro…
25, 50, and 75 years ago
Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024May 24, 1999 The U.S.-organized NATO forces bombed the central market and a hospital in Nis, Yugoslavia, in midday May 7, killing 14 civilians. They blasted the Chinese embassy in downtown Belgrade that night, killing three people. As protests erupted…
Castro: ‘Cancel Third World Debt!’
Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024Fidel Castro’s 1985 campaign to unite underdeveloped countries to repudiate their unpayable foreign debts peaked with a Latin American “continental dialogue” in Havana July 30-Aug. 3. Over 1,000 delegates from 17 countries participated. The gathering had been preceded by conventions…
Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 14 (week eight)
Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024The Socialist Workers Party nominated Dennis Richter as its vice presidential candidate April 29. Due to health considerations that need attention over the next several months, Margaret Trowe, who had been the party’s candidate, will no longer be able to…
Fighting Jew-hatred: continuity of the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024The following excerpt is from Chapter 5 of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. The book describes the continuity of the movement in the fight against Jew-hatred going back more…
The revolutionary potential of the working class in the US
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024The French edition of In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It features the talk Waters gave at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized…