25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

February 22, 1999 NEW YORK — Four New York City cops killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old vendor from Guinea, here Feb. 4 in a fusillade of 41 bullets. The unarmed man was struck by 19 bullets as he stood in…


The US Civil War was the Second American Revolution

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024
Slaves liberated by Union army in Newbern, North Carolina, after Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, Jan. 1, 1863, Communist leaders Karl Marx, Frederick Engels said U.S. Civil War was a struggle between slavery and free labor. They backed Lincoln and free labor.

America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. This excerpt is from the chapter “The Civil War — Its Place in History.” It explains the revolutionary character of both the…


It takes a revolution to stamp out Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

While fights in the U.S. and around the world can expose and deal crucial blows against Jew-hatred, it will continue as long as the underlying causes remain unresolved. This requires mobilizing the working class in our millions to overthrow capitalist…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

February 15, 1999 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “Your demand is not about getting an apology from the British. It is not about revenge. It is about truth, about justice, about equality,” Martin Ferris, a Sinn Fein leader from Kerry, in…



Building a proletarian party is needed to lead struggle for power

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
At left, Socialist Workers Party leaders V.R. Dunne and James P. Cannon lead 15 members of SWP, Teamsters Local 544-CIO to Minneapolis federal courthouse, Dec. 31, 1943, to be taken to prison in frame-up for opposing Washington’s entry into second imperialist world war.

This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The book records the fight to build a party, proletarian in program and composition, that can lead…


Does capitalist crisis mean war is inevitable?

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

As the crisis of the imperialist world “order” deepens and the capitalist rulers worldwide look to build up their militaries and search for new allies, the danger of more wars — and threat of nuclear conflagration — grows. This is…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

February 8, 1999 After a two-week strike and a five-day march toward the capital Bucharest during which they fought pitched battles with the police and military, miners from the Jiu Valley in Romania scored a victory against government attempts to…


Fidel Castro: ‘Never had such a profound change taken place’

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Fidel Castro’s Freedom Caravan enters Havana, Cuba, Jan. 8, 1959. “A sea of people,” he said, met rebel fighters after popular insurrection, general strike sealed victory in revolutionary war.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is In Defense of Socialism: Four Speeches on the 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution  by Fidel Castro, its central leader. The triumph of the Cuban people on Jan. 1, 1959,…


Mass 2014 Maidan battles fought to defend Ukraine’s independence

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
More than 50,000 people demonstrated in Kyiv’s central square Feb. 2, 2014, in 10th week of protests demanding pro-Moscow Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych resign.

As Moscow’s murderous war against Ukraine nears its third year, the Militant is running articles we wrote during and on the heels of the popular mass Maidan movement and Ukraine’s earlier history that led to the overthrow of the Moscow-backed…