Thomas Sankara spoke for the oppressed all over the world

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In August 1983 Sankara led a revolution in the former French colony of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

February 17, 1997 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “You are a heart-warming sight,” Martin McGuinness told a crowd of 40,000 marchers here Feb. 2, the culmination of four days of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre by British…


Malcolm X: ‘We’re living at a time of worldwide revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Malcolm X emerged as an outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation. An intransigent opponent of the U.S. government and its imperialist policies,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

February 10, 1997 The decision by New York state officials to release a list of 17 names, addresses, photos, and descriptions of people who were convicted of sex crimes marks an attack on the democratic rights of working people. It…


Letters

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

NATO, US troops out now! Norway shares a northern border with Russia and has a long coastline that is vital to Russia’s naval access to the Atlantic. Russia sends heavy bombers along the coast on a regular basis to assert…



‘Victory of Spanish Revolution would shake fascist regimes’

Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
Spanish workers’ militia in 1930’s. Workers and farmers struggle against fascist forces of Franco was sabotaged by Stalinist bloc with capitalist parties. “Audacious social reforms are strongest weapon in civil war,” Trotsky said.

The Spanish Revolution (1931-39) by Leon Trotsky, a leader of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of Pathfinder’s books of the month for January. After the death of V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, the revolutionary…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022

February 3, 1997 All those who support women’s rights and democratic rights should be in the streets and in front of the clinics in response to the bombings of abortion facilities in Atlanta and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Protests and meetings are…