Defend the right to strike, picket!

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, Nov. 3. The court order banning picketing and all union activity within 300 yards of entrances to Warrior Met coal operations in Alabama is an assault on striking United…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

November 18, 1996 In a victory for women’s rights, on October 30, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill allowing women to choose abortion on demand, at state expense, up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, and later under certain…


Black troops aided fight against Washington’s war in Philippines

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Blacks in America’s Wars — The Shift in Attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam by Robert W. Mullen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt below reveals a little known side of the 1898…


Emulate Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 27. The Socialist Workers Party points to Cuba’s socialist revolution as an example for working people to study and emulate. It shows the road forward for workers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

November 11, 1996 NEW DELHI, India — Some 1 million telecommunications and postal (P&T) workers here launched a nationwide strike over a wage dispute October 23. A week later, the walkout remained solid, having shut down most postal services, telephone…


Letters

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Dave Goldman Dave Goldman, a longtime friend of the communist movement and former member of the Socialist Workers Party, passed away at his home here Oct. 5. Goldman joined the Young Socialist Alliance and SWP in upstate New York in…



Join, build working-class struggles today

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York mayor, Oct. 19. The boss press is taking note of the growing number of strikes today — not to spread the word about these fights, but to alert the…


‘Social solidarity: Moral foundation of Cuba’s revolution’

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Cuban teacher in Luanda, Angola, with students, largely youth orphaned by apartheid South Africa’s invasions from 1975 to 1988. Cuba’s 425,000 volunteers, military and civilian, helped defeat South African forces. “The principles of our revolution are the moral foundation of our struggle,” Puebla said.

The Spanish edition of Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the victorious…