Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, describes how V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks led workers and peasants to fight to make and…
At the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a number of decisions with important ramifications for the struggles of working people today. This week we reprint a section from Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege,…
July 13, 1998 BRONX, New York — The New York cop accused of choking Anthony Baez to death in 1994 was convicted in Federal court of violating Baez’s civil rights. Free on bond and facing up to 10 years in…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The results of the June 22-23 National Transportation Safety Board hearings here are unmistakable. The Feb. 3 derailment of Norfolk Southern train 32N, subsequent toxic leaks and fires and current challenges facing working people throughout the…
ERIE, Pa. — The strike by 1,400 United Electrical Workers members against Wabtec Corp. here that began June 22 remains solid and spirited. Workers at the plant build rail locomotives. The two striking UE locals, production workers in Local 506…
Won over two-and-a-half centuries of bloody class struggle, key constitutional protections against government interference are under attack by President Joseph Biden’s administration. The push for even more prosecutions against former President Donald Trump, Biden’s main rival for the presidency, is…
Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, July 5. The confidence and determination shown by striking Los Angeles hotel workers is a boost to the entire labor movement. Thousands-strong, UNITE HERE Local 11 members…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is purging his government and the military of supporters of the Wagner mercenary forces after their June 24 “march for freedom” on Moscow. While he seeks to refortify his regime he continues to lose ground in…
NEW YORK — Working people here are once again facing rising rents as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted June 21 to increase rents by the highest amount in a decade on some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Rents for a…
Under the impact of rising prices coupled with declining production and trade worldwide, the capitalist economic crisis is deepening in Europe. And this feeds sharpening strains among the 27 governments that comprise the European Union as well as competition with…
