Socialist revolution is ‘historical mission of modern proletariat’

Vol. 83/No. 33 - September 9, 2019
Garment workers in Heze, China, in 2018. The industrial workforce is “the class that is the foundation and special product of capitalism,” writes SWP leader George Novack. It is also “destined to take charge of the economy and remodel society from top to bottom.”

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern international communist movement. This title was first published in 1880.…


Organize workers to defend class interests

Vol. 83/No. 33 - September 9, 2019

The following statement was issued Aug. 28 by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate. Working people from New York and Puerto Rico to the coalfields of Appalachia and the Powder River Basin face attacks…


Letters

Vol. 83/No. 33 - September 9, 2019

Stigma of mental illness Thank you for comments on the capitalist misuse of mental illness in the article on the mass shootings. Their attitude only serves to increase the stigma that divides working people. Homelessness, hospitalization and incarceration are often…


‘Men and women from nowhere’ changed Cuba’s history

Vol. 83/ No. 32 - September 2, 2019

Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. These three rebels of Chinese…


Back fight by Blackjewel miners!

Vol. 83/ No. 32 - September 2, 2019

The following statement was released Aug. 21 by Amy Husk, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Kentucky.  As workers learn about the unfolding fight of coal miners standing up to Blackjewel and the capitalist profit-seekers looking to take over…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/ No. 32 - September 2, 2019

September 5, 1994 DUBLIN — “Twenty-five years — time for peace, time to go” was the slogan of a march here August 20 marking the 25th anniversary of the deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland. Several…


‘Militant’ reporters head to Puerto Rico

Vol. 83/No. 31 - August 26, 2019

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president in 2016; Seth Galinsky, the SWP candidate for New York City public advocate; and Linda Joyce from Atlanta are heading to Puerto Rico Aug. 15 for five days to bring…


Women’s emancipation requires ending domestic servitude

Vol. 83/No. 31 - August 26, 2019
Women attend literacy class in Soviet Union in early 1920s during Russian Revolution. “A radical reform of the family, and of the whole order of domestic life, ” Leon Trotsky writes,“ requires a great conscious effort on the part of the whole mass of the working class.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, fought to continue the communist course of V.I. Lenin after his death, in the face of…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 31 - August 26, 2019

August 29, 1994 The U.S. government’s failure to defend a woman’s right to choose abortion is feeding a polarization on the issue. Rightist assaults on abortion rights are meeting resistance from youth and other defenders of women’s rights. Clinic defenders…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 30 - August 19, 2019

August 22, 1994 Responsibility for the cold-blooded murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett by a rightist thug in Pensacola, Florida, on July 29 rests squarely on the federal government. Defenders of abortion rights, as well as the entire…