Apple workers in Shanghai protest brutal lockdown

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Fed up with strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed in Shanghai by the Chinese rulers over the past two months, workers at Quanta, a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes MacBook laptops, have organized protests against the conditions they face. This has included…


From prison, Cannon proposed SWP expand reach of ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Workers picket General Motors plant in Michigan, part of 1945-46 nationwide 113-day strike by 320,000 United Auto Workers members. Socialist Workers Party leader James P. Cannon, jailed for SWP’s revolutionary program, wrote to help prepare party for bold campaign with Militant as rising labor battles began as World War II ended.

Letters from Prison: A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-WWII Labor Battles by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of June’s Books of the Month. Cannon, with 17 other cadres of the SWP and…


UK rail workers demand bosses rehire fired unionist

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

MANCHESTER, England — Rail bosses’ attempt to fire union fighter Peter Clifford here is being met by a strong response from workers and their union determined to win his job back. A statement from Clifford’s Rail, Maritime and Transport union…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

June 23, 1997 In his recent travels, president William Clinton has been touting the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 as a model for peace and economic development. Under this scheme, the U.S. rulers provided $13 billion in loans to…


Chevron oil workers vote to end California strike

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

RICHMOND, Calif. — After 10 weeks on strike, hundreds of workers at the Chevron refinery here voted May 27-28 to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The contract was similar to the one they rejected twice, before…


Iran-backed terror, Israeli retaliation increase Mideast tension

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Iran’s Natanz underground “missile city” houses large quantities of missiles, other weapons. Iran’s counterrevolutionary rulers continue efforts to develop nuclear arms, back terrorist attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets from the Golan Heights to South America, Europe, Asia.

The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…


Oberlin College tries again to overturn Gibsons’ victory

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Oberlin College officials filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court May 13 following two consecutive losses both in a jury trial and in the state Court of Appeals in the case brought by the Gibson family, owners of the…


Women played the leading role in prehistoric society

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Reed (1905-79) was a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and participant in the women’s liberation movement of…


‘Capitalism won’t disappear by itself, it must be disappeared’

Havana book fair panel discusses importance of scientific, Marxist understanding of history
Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022
April 24 panel at Havana International Book Fair. From left, Róger Calero, Pathfinder editor; Mary-Alice Waters, a leader of Socialist Workers Party and president of Pathfinder Press; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Zuleica Romay, director of Afro-American Studies at Casa de las Américas; Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, lead editor of complete works of José Martí; and Victor Dreke, longtime revolutionary combatant.

HAVANA — “We all know, or at least sense, that the first large land war on the European continent in more than 75 years signals a new stage in the unraveling of the imperialist world order established by the victors…


Get Moscow out of Ukraine, all of Ukraine!

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Workers worldwide have a big stake in the courageous struggle waged by working people in Ukraine to defend their country’s independence and defeat Moscow’s invasion. But the people of Ukraine may have a “peace” settlement forced on them that leaves…