One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Speeches for Socialism by James P. Cannon. Below is an excerpt from Cannon’s talk at a January 1961 Los Angeles meeting celebrating the life of Carl Skoglund. Both had been…
U.S. bosses and their government are fond of telling us that an expanding capitalist economy is like a rising tide, it “lifts all boats.” This flies in the face of what workers experience in real life. “Record profits weren’t enough…
March 22, 1999 CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors finished presenting their case in the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican independence activist José Solís Jordán here March 8. Solís faces charges in connection with the placing of two bombs outside a military…
Join us in expanding the reach of the Militant ! The Socialist Workers Party is launching an eight-week campaign to increase the readership of the Militant and widely introduce books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders that present the program,…
MANCHESTER, England — “They say low pay. We say no way!” chanted rail workers outside the offices of Carlisle Support Services Feb. 21 during two days of strike action here. Earlier in the day more than 70 of them joined…
The following excerpts are from the speech by Fidel Castro on Oct. 8, 1987, at the main ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, held at the newly completed electronic components factory in Pinar del…
Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, Feb. 28. Jew-hatred is built into capitalist rule, spreading as this cut-throat social system breeds deepening crises and more wars. The Socialist Workers Party urges workers…
March 15, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — With every seat taken, and the aisles filled to capacity, some 450 farmers and their supporters packed the federal courthouse here for a day-long hearing on a proposed settlement in a class-action discrimination lawsuit…
The French edition of The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, explains in the…
RACHELE FRUIT joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1970 in Philadelphia, where she was active in the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. She participated in civil rights protests, including one in Trenton, New Jersey, after the…
