Fruit: ‘Working-class solidarity in North Carolina an example’

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for president, speaks with Polly Augenstein Oct. 18. Coming from Pittsburgh, she is staffing free shower, laundry facilities in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We started with no supplies, but within a few days we had to open a warehouse to hold all the contributions that were pouring in for victims of the hurricane,” Isabel Beteta told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

November 8, 1999 DES MOINES — A fund-raising meeting to aid in the production and distribution of the titles printed and distributed by Pathfinder Press was held here October 23. The featured speaker was Migdalia Jiménez, a member of the…



‘NY Post’ supplement is useful tool to fight Jew-hatred, pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
‘NY Post’ supplement is useful tool to fight Jew-hatred, pogroms

NEW YORK — The New York Post, the paper with the largest daily circulation in the city, printed a special 12-page supplement wrapped around its Oct. 7 edition marking one year since Hamas’ Jew-hating pogrom in Israel. This powerful supplement…


California Sheetrock workers win wage raise, strengthen union

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Yousaf Pasha, standing on right, and fellow ILWU members who were on strike against Georgia-Pacific in Antioch, California, used their fishing boat to discourage delivery ship crew from bringing supplies to company. When ship’s crew saw the signs, they turned ship around.

ANTIOCH, Calif. — After more than three weeks on the picket line, workers at the Georgia-Pacific Sheetrock plant here go back to work with a wage increase of 6% in the first year of a four-year contract, and 3% in…


Bosses push automation to slash jobs and safety, and boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Automated straddle carriers have replaced drivers on Los Angeles docks. Bosses seek automation to boost output, profits by eliminating jobs. With working class in power, benefits of technology would flow broadly to working people, with jobs, pay and safety protected.

After three days on the picket line, the International Longshoremen’s Association suspended its strike at East and Gulf coast ports, extending the current contract to Jan. 15 after winning a 62% wage increase over six years. But the sharpest point…


‘Working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Dennis Richter, left, SWP candidate for U.S. vice president, joined picket of 200 Service Employees International Union members at Los Angeles airport Oct. 11 for higher wages.

SWP Vice Presidential candidate Richter: ‘Defending Israel’s right to exist is in the interests of the world working class’ LOS ANGELES — “Hamas’ so-called Al-Aqsa Flood — their name for the deadly pogrom they carried out in Israel a little…


Memphis cops convicted in deadly beating of Tyre Nichols

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

Three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers, Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith, were found guilty Oct. 3 on charges of federal witness tampering in the brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker. Haley was convicted of…


Seattle union support grows for machinists Boeing strike

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

SEATTLE — Over 500 workers on strike at Boeing packed the International Association of Machinists Local 751 hall here Oct. 15, chanting, “One day longer, one day stronger” and “Pension! Pension!” Hundreds more spilled outside the hall, where supporters from…


‘Social solidarity is moral basis of Cuba’s socialist revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Peasant women learn to read, write at Ana Betancourt school in Havana in 1960. Under Fidel Castro’s leadership, all widows and children — whether those of rebel combatants or soldiers of former Batista dictatorship — were schooled, treated equally. The moral foundation of the socialist revolution was equality for all.

The Spanish edition of  Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the first all-women platoon in…