Pathfinder books sell well at librarians’ national meeting

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

SAN DIEGO — Some 13,500 librarians, authors, illustrators and exhibitors attended the American Library Association annual conference here June 27-July 2, including 340 librarians from 51 other countries. More than 500 exhibitors displayed their wares, including Pathfinder Press. Volunteers at…


SWP candidate brings solidarity to Chabad after attack

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 13 Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, delivered a letter of solidarity to Chabad of Oakland and joined worshipers in a meal there after their Shabbat service. Vandals…


Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Vermont

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Vermont

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, center rear, joined several campaign supporters at the Capitol here July 16 to file 1,138 certified signatures to place Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, and…


Cuba’s socialist revolution is example to workers worldwide

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Fidel Castro delivers Second Declaration of Havana to million-strong assembly of Cuban people Feb. 4, 1962, in the Plaza of the Revolution. It was then presented around the country.

The French edition of  The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. This coincides with the July 26 anniversary…


How Minneapolis Teamsters organized to win strikes in 1934

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Minneapolis cops use tear gas against 10,000 unemployed workers protesting April 6, 1934. Teamsters strikes showed how to organize to win, electrifying broad masses of working people.

Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It is the story of the Teamsters’ organizing drive in Minneapolis where rank-and-file workers won hard-fought strikes in 1934, defeating combined strikebreaking efforts by the…


French election reflects impact of crisis hitting working people

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Over 100,000 marched in some 250 rallies across France May 1, 2022, including in Toulouse, above, demanding President Macron drop his move to raise workers’ retirement age. Protesters called themselves “gilets jaunes.” Banner reads, “Yellow vests of all countries, unite!”

The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…


Fight for workers power to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

Washington, London and other “democratic” imperialist governments refused to offer Jews facing the Nazi Holocaust a refuge before, during and after World War II. The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. With nowhere else to go, thousands of Jews interned in…


Moscow’s war aims to destroy the Ukrainian people, culture

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Hundreds of people volunteered to clear debris, save survivors at Ukraine’s main children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv after missile hit July 8 in Moscow’s deadliest air attacks in months.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in 2022, he minced no words in explaining Ukraine is not really a nation at all and has no right to be one. “Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia,”…


Ontario Cargill workers end strike for better wages

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
UFCW Canada members at Cargill’s beef-processing plant in Guelph, Ontario, on strike since May 27 seeking wages that match inflation, accepted new contract.

GUELPH, Ontario — After a hard-fought six-week strike at the Cargill beef-processing plant here, the nearly 1,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 narrowly voted to accept the latest contract offer July 6. After voting a 99%…


Flight attendants set rally

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

On July 31 members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at Endeavor Air will picket at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re demanding wages equal to those paid at Delta Air Lines, Endeavor’s parent company.  While wearing the same uniforms…