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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…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

July 1, 1996 FT. MADISON, Iowa — After seven and a half years in prison, Socialist Workers Party member Mark Curtis left the Iowa State Penitentiary here on June 18. Imprisoned since 1988 on frame-up charges of attempted rape and…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

June 24, 1996 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Arsonists burned down a portion of an historic Black church here June 6. This is one of more than 30 fires set in Black churches in the South since early 1995. The attacks…


Scientific socialism grew with the working-class movement

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Karl Marx, holding Neue Rheinische Zeitung with Frederick Engels in 1848 German revolution, helped build Communist League, first modern working-class party. Engels wrote, “Com-munism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds not from principles but from facts.”

The excerpt below is from one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels. Engels helped found the modern communist movement alongside Karl Marx. In this book, written by Engels with the collaboration…