ATHENS, Ga. — The Avid Bookshop here is fighting for the right to send books to prisoners. It filed a lawsuit against the sheriff and jail commander of the Gwinnett County Jail in mid-March for refusing to accept books from…
Below are the introductory note and excerpts from the second chapter of the new book The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class, which includes two of the writings by V.I. Lenin,…
Some 20,000 people, mainly young, protested in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, April 18, chanting, “No to the Russian law!” The former Soviet republic bordering Russia on the Black Sea has been rocked for days by demonstrations opposing the ruling Georgian Dream…
The Left Opposition in the U.S.: Writings and Speeches, 1928-31 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Cannon was won to the political course of the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Bolshevik…
The U.S. rulers’ 1991 war on Iraq, and their inability to decisively win it, sounded the opening guns of World War III. It announced that the world order born out of Washington’s emergence as the top dog in World War…
May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand the federal government do something about worsening conditions they face. Much of…
In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…
The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “We’ve been on strike going on nine weeks. We have a lot of union support, but we need more,” Rick Miedema, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 997 on strike at Molson Coors big brewery here, told Socialist…
Increasing numbers of working people are finding themselves unable to cover the exorbitant costs of health care for their family. This is because under capitalism medical care is treated like every other industry, a way to generate profit, not to…
