Wave of drug store closures deepens crisis workers face

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

As thousands of the Big Three chain drug stores close across the country, millions of working people face increased difficulties in filling prescriptions and getting other medical supplies. More than 40% of all U.S. counties have now become what is…


Tentative auto contract goes to UAW members to be voted on

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

HUDSON, Wis. — United Auto Workers Local 722 held a rally in front of the General Motors Parts Distribution plant here Oct. 30. Steve Frisque, the local’s president, told participants that picket lines would come down that evening after the…


SWP campaigns against Jew-hatred, for working class to strive for power

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, discusses fight against Jew-hatred with high school students in Livingston at Oct. 15 rally defending Israel’s right to exist.

As the Nov. 7 elections near, Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters are taking the party’s program and activities to working people on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines and at public actions against Jew-hatred. They find one of the…



Communist continuity in the fight against anti-Semitism

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Since the Tehran-backed Islamist Hamas carried out its organized slaughter Oct. 7, killing over 1,400 Jews, many working people are thinking about why this attack was called a “pogrom.” And they’re seeking to learn more about the bloody history of…



Workers need our own foreign policy

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, Nov. 1. The one thing all the Democratic and Republican candidates for president share in common is a foreign policy based on defense of the economic and…


While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Retirees and oil workers across Iran are continuing weekly protests to defend living standards while workers elsewhere are striking in the face of an annual inflation rate of 46%. At the same time, working people in Iran have largely boycotted…


Nurses picket at Minnesota hospitals for safe staffing levels

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS — At an informational picket at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital here Oct. 26, some 100 Minnesota Nurses Association members and Service Employees International Union members who work in the same hospitals got out the word about the dangers both…


US rulers launch Palmer raids, seek to crush Communist parties

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Mass arrests of members of communist movement, union fighters during notorious raids carried out by Democrat Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Special targets were newly formed Communist parties. Up to 10,000 worker militants were detained, many deported.

Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt from “New capitalist repressions” explains how the U.S. rulers trampled on constitutional freedoms to crush union militancy…