The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party

Advancing a working-class program requires a party working class in composition
Vol. 83/No. 41 - November 11, 2019
Miners block rails, Harlan County, Kentucky, July 2019, to stop Blackjewel bosses from hauling coal until wages owed them were paid. The nonunion miners won broad support and, in October, their back pay.

Below is the introduction to the new book, The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Jack Barnes. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Copyright © 2019 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. BY JACK…




Support labor struggles, vote SWP!

Vol. 83/No. 40 - November 4, 2019

The Socialist Workers Party slate of candidates poses the need for working people to unite and organize to fight to roll back the effects of the capitalist rulers’ economic, political and moral crisis today. Through these struggles we can gain…




Fidel: UN support for US attack on Iraq is ‘shameful day’

Vol. 83/No. 40 - November 4, 2019
Protest against coming U.S. war on Iraq Dec. 8, 1990, in Salt Lake City, Utah. U.N. Security Council unanimously backed Washington, except for revolutionary Cuba, which voted “No.”

The Spanish edition of U.S. Hands off the Mideast! Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations by Fidel Castro and Ricardo Alarcón, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. This excerpt is from a 1990 speech by…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 40 - November 4, 2019

November 7, 1994 UNITED NATIONS — “Not only has the economic, commercial, and financial blockade carried out by the United States against Cuba not been reduced in any way, but on the contrary, it has been strengthened.” With these words,…


Correction

Vol. 83/No. 40 - November 4, 2019

The article in the Oct. 28 Militant “Copper miners reject Asarco’s ‘insulting’ offer, shut down mines” incorrectly reported that the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union was broken in the 1983-86 Phelps Dodge copper mine strike. That union, however, had merged…


Nicaraguan Revolution opened way for women’s emancipation

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
Women in militia in Bluefields, Nicaragua, 1983. After revolutionary course was abandoned by Sandinista leaders in late 1980s, women lost many gains. Abortion was totally banned in 2006.

Nicaragua: The Sandinista People’s Revolution, with speeches and interviews by leaders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. The excerpt is from a 1982 speech, “Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution,”…