NYC forces homeless workers to turn over ‘savings’

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

NEW YORK — Officials here have come up with a new schema they claim will help homeless workers dependent on the city’s shelters “transition to permanent housing.” And it has nothing to do with building more homes or organizing workers…


In race to speed up deliveries, retail bosses squeeze workers

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019
Workers at Amazon warehouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2017. Retail rivals Walmart and Amazon are ramping up the pressure on workers as they compete for ever faster deliveries.

Retail giants Amazon and Walmart, the two biggest employers, are racing to speed up order delivery times as they seek to crush rivals and squeeze out of workers more profits for the bosses. In the latest step in their cutthroat…


Working-class party needs an international program

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Workers fit cars at Packard plant in Detroit in 1920s. Trotsky says the expansion of U.S. imperialism transformed it “into the basic counterrevolutionary force of the modern epoch,” and “prepares the ground for a gigantic revolutionary explosion in this already dominant” power.

The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It contains the Russian revolutionary leader’s defense of the proletarian internationalist course of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


Workers show power, need to organize to win

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

Working people around the world have demonstrated their capacities to engage in sustained struggle, courageously facing down repressive regimes and even toppling governments in Sudan, Algeria, Puerto Rico and elsewhere in recent months. In the course of organizing massive mobilizations…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

September 26, 1994 Working people the world over have a responsibility to demand Washington halt all plans for a military invasion of Haiti. Clinton’s order to put 20,000 U.S. troops into battle to supposedly defend democracy is sheer hypocrisy. Far…


Join in building support for Kentucky coal miners’ fight!

Bosses demand court end Blackjewel miners’ protest
Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Kentucky coal miners fighting for pay stolen from them when Blackjewel bosses declared bankruptcy. Chinese restaurant owner Joyce Cheng, at center, has raised over $5,000 for them.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Blackjewel coal miners in Harlan County and their supporters have been camped out on the rail tracks outside the Cloverlick No. 3 mine since July 29, determined to keep their former bosses from moving about 100 rail…


Disaster facing Bahamians is product of the capitalist system

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

“We are on our own,” Bahamian volunteer fireman Greg Johnson told the press Sept. 6 in Treasure Cay, explaining the inaction of the government of the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. “It’s deplorable.” Working people were left to…


‘Militant’ wins again in battle against Florida prison bans

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

As the campaign against suppression of the Militant  by Florida prison wardens gathers momentum, the Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee  overturned the latest impoundments of two more issues of the socialist newsweekly Aug. 28. And they did so before…


‘Economic recovery is not how most workers would describe life today’

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 2016, talks to Markus Nalumu in Burien, Washington, Sept. 10. “I commend you for what you’re doing,” he said.

“For millions of working people in this country ‘economic recovery’ is not how they would describe their conditions of life over the past 10 years,” Paul Mailhot, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, told the opening celebration…