‘In US prison system, just going to trial earns you respect’

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

  One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is the French edition of  Voices from Prison: The Cuban Five. Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino were arrested on frame-up conspiracy charges by the…


Workers need fighting unions, our own party

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Statement by Willie Cotton Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, June 29.  Working people — who bear the brunt of today’s crisis of the capitalist system — are looking for ways to resist attacks by the…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

July 22, 1996 CHICAGO — “Glad to see you here. These are great books. We’ve been carrying Pathfinder books in my store for some time and now the other stores in the chain have started ordering them,” said a book…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaign!

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 22. As workers face bosses demanding speedup, givebacks in wages and attacks on safety, more of my fellow workers ask why is this happening? What can we…



‘Workers in US, Puerto Rico face the same enemy’

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

The U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization held its annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 18, after skipping the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Rico has been under the boot of Washington as a U.S.…


Capital rules through its two parties: Democrats and Republicans

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
Laura Gray cartoon in Militant, July 29, 1944, of bosses cracking whip over Republicans, Democrats, as they rush to do bidding of capitalist rulers.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Letters from Prison by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party. He and 17 other leaders of the SWP and the Minneapolis Teamsters union were framed…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

July 1, 1996 The following statement was released June 19 by James Harris and Laura Garza, Socialist Workers candidates for president and vice president of the United States. Responsibility for the escalating racist burnings of Black churches throughout the South…


As revolution advanced, Cuban peasants’ lives were transformed

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Working people and Rebel Army fighters line up at field hospital in Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 1958. Revolutionary forces’ policy was to treat peasants, combatants, wounded enemy soldiers without distinction.

The Spanish edition of   Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution  by Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos and Yolanda Ferrer, three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the…