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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund Sept. 23 – November 21 (week six)

Hotel workers in Los Angeles area strike, rally for contract

LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Se ve, se siente, la unión esta presente” and “Unete, unete, a la lucha unete” (“You can see it, you can feel it, the union is here” and “Join, join, join the fight”), hundreds of hotel…

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

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…

As the capitalist economy declines, women can’t afford to have children

In the 12 months following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that ruled Roe v. Wade unconstitutional, there was an increase in the average number of legal abortions to 82,298 each month. This rise takes place while steady jobs with…

Communist continuity in the fight against anti-Semitism

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…

Democrats’ drive to impose ‘gag’ orders on Trump is blow to free speech

Frontal assaults on free speech are being carried out through a barrage of court cases driven by the Joseph Biden Justice Department seeking to imprison former President Donald Trump and crush his 2024 presidential run. Gag orders on the former…

Workers need our own foreign policy

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

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

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

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…