UK bus drivers strike to protect their wages from inflation

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

MANCHESTER, England — Bus drivers working for Arriva North West in Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and across Lancashire went on strike July 20 to fight to protect their wages from being driven down by double-digit inflation. The strikers are members of…


Argentine military officer found guilty for 1972 Trelew massacre

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

A Miami jury found Argentine naval officer Roberto Guillermo Bravo liable July 1 for his role in what has become known as the Trelew Massacre, in a civil case brought by relatives of four of 19 political prisoners who were…


Socialist Workers Party files for 2022 ballot in Pennsylvania

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, second from right, SWP candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, files petitions for ballot in Harrisburg July 27. From left, campaign supporter Paul Canty; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for Congress from New Jersey; and Candace Wagner and Osborne Hart, party’s candidates for governor and U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Socialist Workers Party in Philadelphia completed a statewide campaigning effort to get out the party’s program and win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Campaigners collected 2,422 signatures,…


Boris Johnson ouster reflects political crisis of rulers in UK

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022
Nurses march in London June 18 demanding government pay higher wages. Nervousness of U.K. rulers amid spreading shifts in capitalist “world order” and rising working-class anger over assaults on living standards led Conservative Party leaders to oust Boris Johnson.

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader July 7, forced out by mounting pressure from working people and former supporters, and a tsunami of ministerial resignations. Fifty members of Parliament quit the government in just…


Constitution, Bill of Rights conquest of First American Revolution

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022
Delegates in Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, submit Constitution for ratification by the states. American Revolution, revolts by farmers and other working people won Constitution, as well as Bill of Rights — 10 amendments that codified crucial protections for the working classes.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays by George Novack. A long-time leader of the Socialist Workers Party, he wrote a number of books on questions of Marxist politics and history. The…


Workers need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

The labor movement should join rail workers in fighting President Joseph Biden’s intervention in contract talks between rail bosses and unions aimed at preventing the workers from using their union power, after they voted by 99% to strike against industry-wide…


Support Ukraine in fight against Moscow invasion!

Ukraine, Russian workers need to join against Putin’s war!
Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022
Soldiers’ wives in Buryatia, east Siberia, appeal for husbands to be sent home from Ukraine war. “May the death of every soldier in this unjust war be on your conscience,” one told the gov’t.

Determined to conquer Ukraine and crush its existence as an independent nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to resume their offensive in the east July 16. This cut short a 10-day-old pause aimed at replenishing their depleted and…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

August 11, 1997 Working people in the United States and around the world should join our brothers and sisters in Cuba in denouncing the latest terrorist bombings of tourist hotels in Havana. Whether the U.S. government has a direct hand…


Workers need a program to fight high prices and unemployment

Vol. 86/No. 28 - August 1, 2022

Soaring inflation over the past year and a half is battering the lives of millions of working people worldwide. Combined with the impact of the capitalist crisis on jobs, price hikes are making it increasingly difficult for workers to keep…