‘Working people need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024
Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. president, met Aug. 19 in Manchester, England, with Festus Igho, center, and Israel Akanji, rail gateline workers who are active in the fight to win recognition for the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union on the job.

Fruit in UK: ‘Workers need to take political power’  MANCHESTER, England — “Workers need to rely on ourselves if we’re to fundamentally change the conditions we face,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, told participants at…


Dallas rally backs Black dancers fired for forming a union

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024

DALLAS — In 105 degree heat, Dallas Black Dance Theatre performers and 200 of their supporters turned out for a spirited rally and picket in front of One Arts Plaza here Aug. 17. After the dancers voted to join the…


Richter speaks in Australia, backs construction workers

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024

SYDNEY — The Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Dennis Richter, campaigned here for several days in mid-August along with Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for mayor of Liverpool. CL campaigners took advantage of building for the…


Canadian rail workers fight is a battle for the entire working class

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024
Railworkers picket outside headquarters of Canadian National rail company in Montreal August 22. Workers are fighting for wages, job conditions, safety and livable schedules against bosses, government.

Click below for a downloadable pdf of this article MONTREAL — On Aug. 24, with much of Canada’s freight rail and commuter train system at a standstill following three days of company lockouts and union walkouts, the Canada Industrial Relations…


War on Hamas defends Israelis from Jew-hatred, deadly pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024

The Israeli government’s decision to continue its attack on Hamas in Gaza — despite constant pressure from the U.S. government to end the war — has been decisive in dealing big blows to the Jew-hating thug outfit.  Israel’s goal is…


Working people in Russia speak out against Putin, war on Ukraine

Vol. 88/No. 33 - September 2, 2024
Russian soldiers surrender in Kursk, Russia. Opposition to Putin’s war on Ukraine is growing.

Ukrainian forces are still advancing more than two weeks after entering Russia’s western Kursk region Aug. 6. Kyiv is seeking ways to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use Moscow’s preponderant numbers and resources to advance his…



Freed prisoners: ‘Putin, Russian people are not the same’

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

“Don’t confuse the Putin regime with Russia; they are not the same,” newly released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza said in Bonn, Germany, Aug. 2. Not differentiating between the government in Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine and the Russian…


Women in Cuba joined in deepening the socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024
Women in Santiago de Cuba protest U.S. Ambassador Earl Smith, right, in July 1957, demand an end to U.S. support for Batista dictatorship. Women joined revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro, and after Jan. 1, 1959, victory they helped lead advance of socialist revolution.

To help mark the anniversary of July 26, 1953, the opening of the Cuban Revolution, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution — From Santiago de…


Build solidarity with strike battles today

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

From longshoremen in the U.S. to rail workers in Canada, hotel workers in Los Angeles to park workers in Minneapolis, flight attendants who’ve gone years without a new contract to independent truckers hit by rising costs, more and more working…