Who is Robert Kennedy Jr., why is he running for president?

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign for the White House — polling just under 10% — presents a third capitalist candidate alongside President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump. A decadeslong Democrat from a well-known wealthy ruling-class family, Kennedy often…


SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Tyrique Blount in Bloomfield, New Jersey, signs April 15 to put SWP presidential ticket and Joanne Kuniansky, right, the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, on the ballot.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight against Jew-hatred were central to discussions that Socialist Workers Party campaigners had knocking…


How Cuba’s socialist revolution transformed the working class

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Minister of Industry Che Guevara presents literacy drive banner at paint factory in Havana in November 1961. Don’t try to set “a world record,” he said, but “combine study and work.”

Trying to find out more about the photo on the cover of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada, I and other socialist workers from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom…


Alabama Mercedes-Benz workers file for UAW recognition

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

ATLANTA — “We feel great,” Jim Spitzley, a Mercedes-Benz worker in Vance, Alabama, and veteran fighter for representation by the United Auto Workers, told the Militant by phone April 7. “Everyone at work is excited that we filed for the…


Canadian National Autoport workers vote up new contract

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Unifor Local 100 members at Autoport in Eastern Passage voted to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The plant is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. The deal provides 3%, 2.5%…


Ottawa’s turn against Israel spurs Jew-hatred in Canada

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Over 1,000 people rally at Toronto City Hall April 7 in protest against Jew-hatred, demand Hamas release Oct. 7 hostages. Rally took place amid sharp increase in Jew-hatred in Canada.

MONTREAL — After a daylong debate March 19, the Canadian Parliament adopted a motion approving Ottawa’s shift away from its longstanding support of Israel’s armed forces defending the country from attack. The motion adopted, proposed by the social democratic New…


New rail crew regulation no substitute for union power

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under pressure from a series of recent derailments and other rail disasters, including the explosive toxic fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Federal Railroad Administration adopted April 2 a “Train Crew Size Safety Requirement” that will supposedly…


‘Woke’ constitutional amendments rejected in Ireland

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

LONDON — An attempt by Ireland’s capitalist rulers to impose their values on working people blew up in their faces March 8 when two constitutional amendments, backed by the country’s main capitalist parties, were soundly defeated by large margins in…


How Marxists in the US helped lead in overthrow of slavery

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Joseph Weydemeyer, inset, close collaborator of Karl Marx, served as officer in Union Army, like those, above, during Civil War. Marx hailed President Abraham Lincoln for his reelection in 1864, saying that politically it was “the triumphal war-cry” of “Death to Slavery.”

Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years 1848-1917 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This is the first of two volumes covering class struggles and political battles behind the development of a Marxist leadership in…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albanian refugees from Kosova, “uncivilized” Serbs seeking “ethnic cleansing,” and corpses. Even to those repelled…