25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…


UAW members win raises, COLA, end tiers at Daimler

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

BY DIANE SHUR, JANE ROLAND AND SUE SKINNER STATESVILLE, N.C. — A tentative contract agreement was announced between Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers April 26, an hour before the strike deadline. According to UAW officials the four-year agreement…





Russia’s socialist revolution posed the road forward everywhere

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Delegates to the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 1920. “Soviet Russia is the fortress of the world revolution,” James P. Cannon said. It “inspires and strengthens the movement of the workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.”

The Left Opposition in the U.S.: Writings and Speeches, 1928-31 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Cannon was won to the political course of the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Bolshevik…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand the federal government do something about worsening conditions they face. Much of…



Support Israel’s right to exist, defend itself as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!

Working people need to reject Biden’s demand that Israel not respond
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate, in Los Angeles. “The SWP calls on working people to condemn pressure by the U.S. government of Joseph Biden to dictate to Israel what it must or must not do to defend itself as a refuge for the Jews,” she said April 15.

Statement released April 15 by Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States. SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit is working-class alternative to capitalism’s march to depression and war The Socialist Workers Party calls on working people…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

May 3, 1999 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — David Sanes, a resident of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, was killed April 19 when two U.S. Navy warplanes on a training mission for the U.S. bombing campaign against Yugoslavia dropped…