25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

March 8, 1999 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Some 150 people marched here Feb. 9 to protest the Security Intelligence Service amendment bill now before Parliament. The SIS is the government’s domestic spy organization. The purpose is to give SIS agents…


‘Che Guevara on Economics and Politics’ on road to socialism

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Che Guevara, second from left, at Cuban factory. He discussed importance of discipline, goals of the revolution and, above all, communist consciousness and work as social responsibility.

This is the Editor’s Note by Mary-Alice Waters to the new Pathfinder Press expanded edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. Tablada received the Special Prize from the Cuban cultural institution…


Communist International defended rights of oppressed peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Lenin speaks at Second Congress of Communist International, July 1920, in Petrograd, Russia. Combating persecution of Jews, said Lenin, is vital to advance socialist revolution as only road to ensure rights of all oppressed nations. Under his leadership, Bolshevik Party was on the front lines of the fight to end pogroms.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920, Vol. 1. The 1917 revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


Get Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

Two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine to crush its independence and subjugate its people. Eight years earlier workers across Ukraine rose up in massive protests for political rights that ousted the pro-Moscow regime of…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

March 1, 1999 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “The British government has got away with murder for too long — let’s see if they can handle the truth as well as they can handle the lies,” said Kay Duddy. Her brother,…


Che fought to extend socialist revolution in Latin America

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Fighters in 1952 Bolivian national revolution. Prerevolutionary crises in Latin America led Che Guevara, Bolivian fighters to try to open socialist revolution across the continent in 1966.

The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Guevara, an Argentinian who helped lead the Cuban Revolution, set out in Bolivia to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants.…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

February 22, 1999 NEW YORK — Four New York City cops killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old vendor from Guinea, here Feb. 4 in a fusillade of 41 bullets. The unarmed man was struck by 19 bullets as he stood in…


The US Civil War was the Second American Revolution

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024
Slaves liberated by Union army in Newbern, North Carolina, after Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, Jan. 1, 1863, Communist leaders Karl Marx, Frederick Engels said U.S. Civil War was a struggle between slavery and free labor. They backed Lincoln and free labor.

America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. This excerpt is from the chapter “The Civil War — Its Place in History.” It explains the revolutionary character of both the…


It takes a revolution to stamp out Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

While fights in the U.S. and around the world can expose and deal crucial blows against Jew-hatred, it will continue as long as the underlying causes remain unresolved. This requires mobilizing the working class in our millions to overthrow capitalist…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

February 15, 1999 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “Your demand is not about getting an apology from the British. It is not about revenge. It is about truth, about justice, about equality,” Martin Ferris, a Sinn Fein leader from Kerry, in…