Teamsters’ newspaper helped win 1934 Minneapolis strikes

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
July 26 Organizer, daily broadsheet of Teamsters Local 574’s 1934 strike battles in Minneapolis. Crucial to winning victory, union prepared strikers for every move by bosses, the government.

The French edition of The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, explains in the…


Meet the Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidates

Rachele Fruit for U.S. president & Margaret Trowe for vice president
Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

RACHELE FRUIT joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1970 in Philadelphia, where she was active in the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. She participated in civil rights protests, including one in Trenton, New Jersey, after the…


Hamas lays out its goals: Kill Jews, destroy Israel

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

Some individuals and groups who condemn Hamas for its bloody anti-Jewish pogrom and massacre of 1,200 people Oct. 7 are now backing the call by Hamas apologists for a cease-fire, which would allow the Islamist outfit to survive and slaughter…


Join the fight for workers power and socialism!

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Flight attendants rally at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Feb. 13. SWP campaign explains how workers transform ourselves in the class struggle.

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Feb. 20. Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit for president and Margaret Trowe for vice president, along with SWP candidates across the country, point the way forward for the…


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.…