Back workers standing up to boss attacks, build solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

“We think workers should support unionists standing up to the bosses’ attacks, like striking miners in Alabama, and refinery workers in Minnesota and Texas,” Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun told truck driver Dale Robinson in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5.…


Scientific socialism grew with the working-class movement

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Karl Marx, holding Neue Rheinische Zeitung with Frederick Engels in 1848 German revolution, helped build Communist League, first modern working-class party. Engels wrote, “Com-munism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds not from principles but from facts.”

The excerpt below is from one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels. Engels helped found the modern communist movement alongside Karl Marx. In this book, written by Engels with the collaboration…


The working-class road forward in tackling crime and cop violence

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor Doug Nelson, inset. Campaign points to how 1964 Black rights protests led by Gloria Richardson, above, in Maryland built solidarity, cut crime.

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of Socialist Workers Party candidates Doug Nelson for mayor and David Rosenfeld for City Council in Ward 12 here had a successful weekend June 5-6 campaigning with workers on their doorsteps and collecting signatures to put Nelson…


Jewish and Arab workers join to advance class solidarity in Israel

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

The brief wave of clashes in Israel in mid-May shows the challenges and the desire of Jewish and Arab working people there to come together to advance their class interests. Attacks against Jews and Arabs alike took place as tensions…


Victory won in overturning Indiana prison ban of ‘Militant’

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

News update: Shortly after going to press June 9, the Militant was informed by Indiana prison authorities that the ban on issues of the paper withheld from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson had been overturned. “I agree with you that censoring’ images…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, June 9. Safety is at the heart of many working-class struggles today as the bosses drive to increase productivity and profits, leading to deadly speedup and disdain for…


Book on Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution out in Greek

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Cuba’s Ambassador in Greece, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina, left, and book editor Natasha Terlexi, speak at May 30 book launch of Our History Is Still Being Written in Greek.

ATHENS, Greece — Publisher Diethnes Vima publicly launched its newly released Greek-language edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution here May 30. The book is a series of…



Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Hong Kong protests defy ban, mark Tiananmen massacre

Despite facing over 7,000 police, ostensibly mobilized to block “illegal assemblies,” throngs of people gathered outside barricaded Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4. They were honoring hundreds killed 32 years ago when Beijing brutally crushed mass protests for political…


Autoworkers back on picket line in Volvo Truck strike

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Picket at Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 7. UAW members voted down contract offer for second time by 90%.

After twice voting down proposed contracts by 90%, 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, went back on strike June 7. Horns blared as workers drove out of the plant…