Shifts in world politics boost interest in Pathfinder books

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pathfinder booth at Los Angeles book festival April 20-21 at University of Southern California.

LOS ANGELES — “Books by revolutionary working-class leaders” read the banner over the Pathfinder Books booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held over the April 20-21 weekend on the University of Southern California campus. The booth was…


Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party nominated Dennis Richter as its vice presidential candidate April 29. Due to health considerations that need attention over the next several months, Margaret Trowe, who had been the party’s candidate, will no longer be able to…


Fighting Jew-hatred: continuity of the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The following excerpt is from Chapter 5 of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. The book describes the continuity of the movement in the fight against Jew-hatred going back more…


Hamas boosters ‘protest’ on campuses, say ‘Destroy Israel’

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Pro-Hamas building takeover at Columbia University April 30. Organizers of actions are increasingly open that their goal is to destroy Israel, support killing or expulsion of Jews there.

So-called Gaza Solidarity Encampments, first set up April 17 at the Ivy League Columbia University in New York by supporters there of the reactionary Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews, have spread to a number of other elite campuses in…


The revolutionary potential of the working class in the US

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Kentucky teachers walk out in protest in April 2018 inspired by victory two months earlier in West Virginia by teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, who won raises for all state employees. Actions pointed to social movement needed to fight for interests of all working people.

The French edition of In Defense of the US Working Class by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It features the talk Waters gave at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized…


Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

SWP campaign stands for independent working-class political action
Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

We urge our readers to endorse Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. There is no other choice you can make that will advance toward a break with the capitalist parties and a step toward independent working-class…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…


SWP campaigners win new support

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
When Candace Wagner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, knocked on his door in Butler, Pennsylvania, UAW member Richard LeGrande said even with a union job it’s hard to afford housing. LeGrande got a Militant subscription, three books by SWP leaders.

Campaigners for Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, are introducing the party’s working-class program and activity widely among working people and making good use of the just-published title The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist…


Daimler workers prepare for strike as contract deadline nears

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
United Auto Workers members join strike preparation rally April 10 outside Daimler trucking warehouse in Buford, Georgia. Workers are fighting for a wage raise, cost-of-living protection.

BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…


Working people in Ukraine fight to defend their independence

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Moscow is stepping up its murderous assault on Ukrainian workers’ lives and on the mines and factories of the country’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as on crucial infrastructure across the country. Yet the Ukrainian people’s courageous determination to defend…