Richter: ‘We need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Nelson Salgado, left, at truck stop in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Sept. 22, told Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, that he agreed with him that workers need to take power.

PAULSBORO, N.J. — “I thought it was ‘We, the people’ who are supposed to be in charge,” trucker Santiago Corpus told Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, when he campaigned at a long-haul truck stop here Sept.…


Join, build Oct. 7 actions against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The fight against Jew-hatred is a key question everywhere. It will be decisive to all working-class battles today against the brutal consequences for humanity of imperialism in decline. That’s why working people everywhere should join actions marking the one-year anniversary…


‘Program must lead proletariat to the conquest of power’

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
V.I. Lenin, front left, with delegates to Second Congress of Communist International, July 19, 1920. Under his leadership, Bolsheviks led Russian workers and peasants to power, setting worldwide example of kind of party, program and strategy needed for a socialist revolution.

The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Parts of this book and important new material has been published in a new book, The Turn to…


Boeing workers strike is solid as bosses try to go around union

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

SEATTLE — Bosses at Boeing took what they called their “best and final” offer directly to 33,000 striking workers in an attempt to go around their union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 and District W24.…



End US rulers’ economic war against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
“Cuba has been a victim of terrorist actions that for years have been organized and financed from U.S. territories,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public meeting in Auckland Sept. 14. At left, Fiona Taler of the Cuba Friendship Society.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In campaigning against the over 60-year U.S. economic war against Cuba, “it’s important to demand Cuba’s removal from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public…


White Houses uses ‘Foreign Agent’ law to target political opponents

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
FBI agents raid home of Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, later Trump adviser, Aug. 7 after seizing his passport as he boarded plane for tour in Russia. U.S. rulers use Foreign Agents” act, FBI to attack constitutional right to free speech and association.

The Democrats are dealing blows to sorely needed constitutional freedoms with their barrage of prosecutions aimed at stopping Donald Trump from regaining the White House in 2024. Alongside this, they’re stepping up use of the FBI — the capitalist rulers’…


As battles with Hezbollah heat up: Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews!

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Israeli rescuers at houses hit by Hezbollah rocket in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel, Sept. 22. Daily missile attacks from Lebanon by Tehran-sponsored terror group target Jewish civilians.

Having made significant progress in the war to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces — no longer willing to accept daily missile assaults on northern Israel — are now focusing on Lebanon-based Hezbollah. And they’re dealing devastating blows to the…


Democrats move to block third parties from the ballot

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

The heart of the Democrats’ campaign for president this year is their full-throated attack on Donald Trump as a dictatorial ultrarightist. The Washington Post headlined Catherine Rampell’s Sept. 24 column, “Don’t scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump’s rhetoric is that…