Build solidarity with union struggles today

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

October 20, 1997 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of workers and youth marched here Oct. 1 as part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the proposed sale of the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. One of the…


Women’s emancipation is tied to working-class fight for power

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Frederick Engels with Clara Zetkin, fellow German revolutionary leader, at international congress in Zurich in August 1893. Engels wrote that only when the exploitation of the working class by capital has been ended “can true equality between men and women become a reality.”

This week’s selection from October Books of the Month is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, first published in 1884. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern…


Build solidarity with union struggles today

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…





The FBI: A history of the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Above, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt signs 1934 bill, forerunner of executive order five years later increasing FBI powers to target unions and “subversives.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is directly behind Roosevelt. Below, Raid on Socialist Workers Party office in Minneapolis, June 1941. White House aimed to silence SWP and Teamster union leaders campaigning against rulers’ plans to send workers and farmers into second imperialist world war.

The Spanish-language edition of 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It traces…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

October 13, 1997 SYDNEY — On September 8 coal miners at Rio Tinto’s Hunter Valley #1 mine resumed strike action after the company suspended two workers for refusing to transfer from their usual jobs to work in the coal preparation…


Fight for justice for Mahsa Amini!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Millions of working people in the U.S. and worldwide stand with protesters across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the hands of the reactionary regime’s notorious “morality police.” She was arrested…