US rulers turn FBI into anti-labor political police operation

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, second from left, watches President Franklin Roosevelt sign 1934 bill expanding federal bureau’s powers. As U.S. rulers prepared to enter imperialist competition for markets and power in World War II, they used FBI to frame up union fighters and SWP.

50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It traces the U.S. capitalist rulers’…


2024 US election reflects blows of capitalist crisis on working class

Workers need our own party to fight for power
Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024

The 2024 U.S. presidential election and its outcome reflected the growing dissatisfaction of tens of millions of working people with the economic and social conditions and growing threats of war they and their families have faced for many years. These…


Lenin backed self-determination for nations oppressed by Moscow

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Red Army troops in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 1917. Bolshevik Revolution put Russian workers and peasants in power, ended Moscow’s involvement in World War I, and overturned czar’s “prison house of nations,” offering self-determination to Ukraine and other nationalities.

Days before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he denied the country really exists as an independent nation, claiming it was “an inalienable part” of Russia. He blamed V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the…


SWP campaign shows way forward for working people

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at event in Pittsburgh Oct. 30, chaired by Candace Wagner, party’s candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania.

Fruit: ‘Today’s strikes key to building the labor movement PITTSBURGH — “The presidential campaign of the Socialist Workers Party is the only voice representing the interests of our class — and I mean the working class worldwide,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist…


BCTGM members in Buffalo on strike at Milk-Bone

Vol. 88/No. 43 - November 18, 2024
BCTGM members in Buffalo on strike at Milk-Bone

Workers who make Milk-Bone dog treats went on strike in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 28. Milk-Bone is owned by the J.M. Smucker Company. The union says that 165 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G…


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Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas — Marthen Goo, a member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, met Socialist Workers Party members George Chalmers and myself in Enid, Oklahoma, Oct. 20. Goo recently moved there and was encouraged by other members…


‘Glad I stopped to talk,’ rail worker tells Richter

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
‘Glad I stopped to talk,’ rail worker tells Richter

CINCINNATI — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for  vice president, brought the party’s working-class program to rail workers at the CSX Queensgate yard here Oct. 28. Jennifer Noell was among those who stopped to talk. “I’ve seen your campaign…



Carlos Harris released from prison after 20-year frame-up

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Family and supporters of Carlos Harris at Santa Clara County courthouse Oct. 17 after judge ordered his release after serving 20 years for crime he never committed. In front row, third from left, is Harris’ cousin, Aisha Hampton. Harris’ mother, Rachel Hampton, is fifth from left.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Carlos Harris walked out of Santa Clara County Jail Oct. 22, after having spent 20 years in California state prisons for a crime he did not commit. “I can’t believe that I’m out!” Harris, 53, exulted…


Workers face scourge of high prices, bosses get rich

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

While Joseph Biden administration officials and boosters of Kamala Harris’ campaign insist the battle against inflation has been won, working people know from real life experience it just isn’t true. High prices on food, energy, housing, health care and just…