Drought crisis is result of profit system

Vol. 87/No. 5 - February 6, 2023

Statement issued Jan. 25 by Ellie García, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California in 2022. Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no control. But these are not primarily natural disasters such as the…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 5 - February 6, 2023

February 9, 1998 The conduct of Cuban president Fidel Castro and of hundreds of thousands of Cuban people during the Pope’s visit provided a joyous glimpse of what it means for the proletariat to be in power with a firm,…


Solidarity key to strengthening union actions in UK

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Hundreds of trade unionists join protest against government anti-strike bill Jan. 16, Downing Street, London. Action was called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

MANCHESTER, England — “On our 16th day of action fighting for a pay rise I want to extend support to all the other unions that are in this fight,” train conductor Clayton Clive told a Jan. 7 solidarity rally of…


1934 Teamsters strike showed the way for workers everywhere

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Minneapolis Teamsters defeat attacks by police, bosses’ thugs in “Battle of Deputies Run,” May 21, 1934. Class-struggle leadership mobilized union, support, ensuring strike was victorious.

The Communist League of America 1932-34 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s January Books of the Month. Under the inspiration of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Cannon helped found the Communist Party in the U.S. in 1919.…


Defend Ukraine independence! Moscow troops get out now!

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Ukraine protest in New York Times Square Feb. 26, 2022

Moscow’s larger and better armed military continues to fail to make any substantial gains against determined and motivated Ukrainian workers and soldiers defending their country’s independence.  Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a protracted war of attrition, seeking a…


‘Peace’ movement backs Putin’s war aims

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

As he openly explained, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February to destroy its government, subjugate its people, obliterate their national identity, and incorporate it into a rebuilt greater Russian empire. With working people in the…


Iran unrest fueled by attacks on labor, women, nationalities

Protests: ‘No death penalty! Free political prisoners!’
Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
At Tehran court Jan. 16 families of those facing execution on drug charges, part of wider protests across Iran against death penalty, chanted, ”Let authorities answer! No to executions!”

Dozens demonstrated outside Rajai Shahr jail near Tehran Jan. 8 and 9 to demand an end to the death penalty, including the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of several anti-government protesters convicted of “enmity to God” and sentenced to death. …


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

February 2, 1998 LOS ANGELES — The crisis growing out of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads sparked a picket line of 45 spouses and children of Union Pacific employees at the Colton Yard in southern…


Help ‘Militant’ win renewals, get new book out to workers

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are reaching out to the more than 1,300 persons who subscribed to the Militant  last fall. They will discuss the party’s program…


Havana Int’l Book Fair set for February

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023

The 31st Havana International Book Fair, with the theme “To read is to grow,” will take place Feb. 9-19. This year’s country of honor is Colombia. This year’s fair also honors Cuban poet and essayist Fina García Marruz, who died…