The low point of labor resistance is behind us

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

Below are excerpts from the preface to The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters. Copyright © 2023 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. The articles and documents…



Iraida Aguirrechu, a life made possible by Cuba’s revolution

Vol. 87/No. 6 - February 13, 2023
Iraida Aguirrechu, right, of Editora Política, at Feb. 6, 2006, Havana International Book Fair presentation of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. From left, Cuban Vice President José Ramón Fernández; generals Gustavo Chui, Armando Choy and Moisés Sío Wong; Pathfinder President Mary-Alice Waters.

Iraida Aguirrechu was one of the hundreds of thousands of Cuban women and men whose entire life trajectory was shaped — and made possible — by Cuba’s socialist revolution. A revolution that has defied more than six decades of attempts…


Mary-Alice Waters: Tribute to the life of Iraida Aguirrechu

Vol. 87/No. 6 - February 13, 2023

The following tribute to Iraida Aguirrechu was delivered by Mary-Alice Waters during a brief ceremony on Jan. 11 at the Pantheon of Internationalist Combatants, located in the Colón Cemetery, Havana, Cuba, where Aguirrechu’s ashes are interred. Waters is the president…


The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us

The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward
Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Rail workers rally July 2022 in Galesburg, Illinois, against carrier bosses’ refusal to address inhumane work schedules, working conditions, and crew sizes. President Joseph Biden and bipartisan Congress barred right to strike.

The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward is the product of trade union and broader political work over the last year by SWP members responding to deepening cracks in the world order…


Defending the Cuban Revolution, strengthening US working people

Vol. 84/No. 45 - November 16, 2020
United actions have been at center of Socialist Workers Party’s defense of Cuban Revolution for six decades. Above, April 15, 1961, picket at U.N. called by Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which organized in U.S. and Canada to halt attacks on Cuba. Inset, SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters, right, and party’s 2008 presidential candidate Róger Calero carry banner in September 2008 march to free Cuban 5 in Washington, D.C. Also participating were IFCO/Pastors for Peace, National Network on Cuba, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Green Party, D.C. Metro Committee to Free the Five and others.

An article headlined “Would a Joe Biden White House Be Better for Cuba?” appeared in last week’s print edition of the Militant. It was retracted and not included in the online edition after the National Committee of the Socialist Workers…