25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 7 - February 24, 2020

February 27, 1995 The Clinton administration’s 1994 “crime bill” is a broadside assault on democratic rights of working people. Amid the depression conditions spreading throughout the capitalist world, the U.S. rulers are preparing the cops and courts for the struggles…



Why workers should fight for control of production

Vol. 84/No. 6 - February 17, 2020

As part of strengthening the self-confidence, fighting capacities and class consciousness of working people, Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett, explain why the fight for workers control of production is a key…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 6 - February 17, 2020

February 20, 1995 Nearly 50 years ago Washington ushered in the horror of nuclear warfare with the slaughter of some 200,000 men, women and children in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The Japanese were ready to surrender and…


Cuba’s socialist revolution, China and the world class struggle today

Cuban Revolution shows what’s possible when working people take power, transforming ourselves as we transform class relations of life and work
Vol. 84/No. 5 - February 10, 2020
Above, mobilization in Havana’s Chinatown on the 11th anniversary of Chinese Revolution, October 1960, as Cuban toilers were expropriating domestic and imperialist capital. Inset, laundry worker, Havana, 1940s. “Absence of anti-Chinese discrimination today,” Mary-Alice Waters points out, is product of Cuba’s socialist revolution.

The following is the presentation by Mary-Alice Waters, who spoke as part of a panel discussion in Guangzhou, China, one of some 50 during the 10th International Conference of ISSCO, the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas. The…


Meet the SWP candidates:
Alyson Kennedy & Malcolm Jarrett

Vol. 84/No. 5 - February 10, 2020

Alyson Kennedy Alyson Kennedy grew up in Indianapolis, where she was attracted to the massive battles she followed on TV against racist cops and KKK thugs across the South that tore down Jim Crow segregation, strengthening the whole working class.…


SWP 1968 candidate takes antiwar campaign to GIs in Vietnam

Vol. 84/No. 5 - February 10, 2020

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock. The extent of this decadeslong FBI disruption campaign against labor and political groups was exposed by the Socialist Workers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 5 - February 10, 2020

February 13, 1995 ALLIANCE, Nebraska — Rail workers here face massive overtime demands by the bosses, which have been accompanied by the most significant hiring by the railroads in more than a decade. Rail unionists are being forced to work…


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Vol. 84/No. 4 - February 3, 2020

Socialist Workers Party candidates around the country present a course of working-class struggle against the employing class — the necessity of fighting to defend and improve our wages, social rights and working conditions. These struggles — and solidarity with others…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 84/No. 4 - February 3, 2020

February 6, 1995 PARKES AND MUDGEE, Australia — Hundreds of family farmers and supporters across drought-stricken south and central parts of this state lined major country roads January 11 to publicize their demands for an extension of assistance payments and…