Organizing the South remains a key challenge before labor

Vol. 84/No. 43 - November 2, 2020
Steelworkers Local 8888 victory demonstration at Newport News, Virginia, shipyard in 1979. Drive led by Black workers to organize 18,000 there showed possibilities for organizing South.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. Preis, a participant in labor battles in the 1930s, became a staff writer for the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 43 - November 2, 2020

November 6, 1995 NEW YORK — The five-day whirlwind visit by Cuban president Fidel Castro here dominated the news in this city and across the country for nearly a week. It shows vividly the weight of revolutionary Cuba in world…


Fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’

Vol. 84/No. 43 - November 2, 2020

In response to a broad array of organizations and individuals speaking out, prison authorities in Florida recently ended a ban on several issues of the Militant  that they had suppressed for reporting on unconstitutional impoundments of the paper. But they…


For a shorter workweek with no cut in pay to stop layoffs

Vol. 84/No. 43 - November 2, 2020

This statement was released by Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy Oct. 22. The pressing need for working people to join together to fight the impact of an unprecedented economic and social crisis caused by the dog-eat-dog capitalist system…




Socialist Workers Party Campaign: Where We Stand

Vol. 84/No. 42 - October 26, 2020

THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY PRESENTS A FIGHTING WORKING-CLASS PROGRAM. WE NEED TO ORGANIZE TO FIGHT GROWING EMPLOYER ATTACKS ON OUR JOBS, WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS. Build solidarity with workers’ struggles to organize and defend themselves. On this course, we can build…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 42 - October 26, 2020

October 30, 1995 DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa State Board of Parole for the first time in three years have agreed to meet with [Mark] Curtis. Curtis, a member of the Socialist Workers Party, has been incarcerated since 1988,…


Fight against rulers’ attacks on workers’ health, wages

Vol. 84/No. 42 - October 26, 2020

This statement was released by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, Oct. 14. Working people need to join together to fight for protection from the impact of the spreading capitalist social and economic crisis and to use all…