‘FBI disruption violates constitutional rights of SWP’

Vol. 83/No. 36 - October 7, 2019
SWP suit against FBI proved government spying and disruption is unconstitutional. Above, GM and Aramark strikers picket GM Parma plant near Cleveland Sept. 16. Recent FBI “corruption” raids on UAW union officials are aimed at weakening strike and the union.

FBI on Trial: The Victory of the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. In July 1973 the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance filed a lawsuit against the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 36 - October 7, 2019

October 10, 1994 FLINT, Michigan — Nearly 12,000 members of United Auto Workers Local 599, the largest General Motors local in North America, walked out of the 25 plants that make up GM’s Buick City complex September 27. The strikers…


Wake up Puerto Rico, it’s time!

Vol. 83/No. 36 - October 7, 2019

It brings tears to my eyes to sit in prison locked down and to read about how my island is being destroyed. Its own government is selling our own people out. We don’t need the U.S. interfering in our affairs.…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

October 3, 1994 ROSETOWN, Saskatchewan — Unionized since 1936, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Canada’s largest grain-handling company, had never been struck by its employees. But after months of rancorous negotiations marked by the big cooperative’s demands for contract concessions, the…


‘There will be a clash between the oppressed and the oppressors’

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

Malcolm X Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Malcolm broke from the Nation of Islam, headed by Elijah Muhammad, to become the outstanding leader of the struggle for Black liberation in the United States in…


GM workers, Blackjewel miners, fight for all of us

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

The following statement by Helen Meyers, Socialist Workers Party candidate for St. Paul City Council, was released Sept. 18. The nearly 50,000 autoworkers on strike against attacks by bosses at General Motors are fighting not just for themselves, but for…


Bosses’ profit drive leads to deaths of two more rail workers

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Bosses’ profit drive leads to deaths of two more rail workers

BY A RAIL WORKER IN MONTREAL The rail bosses’ drive for profit claimed the lives of two more union brothers and rail workers in North America in August. On Aug. 15, in Vaughn, Ontario, 27-year-old train conductor and Teamsters union…


Working-class party needs an international program

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Workers fit cars at Packard plant in Detroit in 1920s. Trotsky says the expansion of U.S. imperialism transformed it “into the basic counterrevolutionary force of the modern epoch,” and “prepares the ground for a gigantic revolutionary explosion in this already dominant” power.

The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It contains the Russian revolutionary leader’s defense of the proletarian internationalist course of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

September 26, 1994 Working people the world over have a responsibility to demand Washington halt all plans for a military invasion of Haiti. Clinton’s order to put 20,000 U.S. troops into battle to supposedly defend democracy is sheer hypocrisy. Far…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 33 - September 9, 2019

September 12, 1994 Hundreds of working people, joined by youth and others, have organized picket lines in dozens of cities demanding the U.S. government get out of Guantánamo, end its criminal economic and information embargo against Cuba, and stop its…