‘Telling truth about Holocaust aids fight
against Jew-hatred’

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Julius Wolff, who was Jewish, and his non-Jewish fiancée, Christine Neumann, being paraded through Norden, Germany, by Nazi thugs in 1935. Wolff was forced to carry sign saying, “I am a race defiler.”

NORDEN, Germany — A trip I made to Germany in early July brought home how alive the legacy of the Nazi Holocaust remains here, and its relevance given the rise of Jew-hatred worldwide, especially after Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, which…


Communist League campaign wins support in UK elections

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Pamela Holmes, Communist League parliamentary candidate in Tottenham, London, with Pat Gough, Unite union convenor, on Case Holland picket line June 4. Inset, Peter Clifford, front right, CL candidate for Manchester Rusholme seat with fellow rail workers on strike June 8.

LONDON — “Our campaign starts from how to mobilize millions to defend the interests of working people,” Peter Clifford, the Communist League candidate for the Manchester Rusholme constituency told a candidates’ debate July 2, during the recent parliamentary elections. “The…


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…


SWP candidates file for ballot in Tennessee

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
SWP candidates file for ballot in Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Socialist Workers Party leaders John Benson and Susan LaMont, above, filed to put the party’s presidential ticket — Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president — on the ballot July 8. They turned in…


Israelis face growing threats, attacks from Hezbollah

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

In one of the largest barrages yet, Hezbollah launched 200 rockets and mortars and more than 20 drones from Lebanon into northern Israel July 4, killing one Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and setting fires as far away as…


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,”…