‘In US, unlike Cuba, farmers can lose their land’

New book discusses how US working people are fighting back against bosses’ anti-labor offensive
Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
July 2014 protest in Seattle by rail workers and family members against bosses’ attempts to slash train crews down to one worker. Bosses seek to increase profits by attacks on workers, farmers and their conditions.

In Defense of the US Working Class, a new book by Mary-Alice Waters, is now off the presses. It features the talk by Waters at an April 24-26, 2018, international conference in Havana organized by the Cuban History Institute and…


Sudan toilers protest gov’t attacks, years of wars

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

In response to a rise in the price of bread, tens of thousands of working people have joined protests since mid-December in cities across Sudan. The price increases came on top of years of grinding hardships, civil war and political…


Ninth week of ‘yellow vest’ protests across France

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

PARIS — The size of the Saturday yellow vest demonstrations throughout France grew larger Jan. 12 over the previous couple of weeks. This is the ninth weekend of protests here since the movement of workers, petty proprietors, shopkeepers and others…



Sankara: ‘The future demands that women be liberated’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019
Committees for Defense of Revolution meet August 1985 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, above. After 1983 revolution working people, including women, built mass organizations to participate in running their country. Thomas Sankara speaks on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987, inset.

The excerpt below is from Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Sankara led an uprising in 1983 to establish a popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…


SWP Statement: Support Los Angeles teachers strike!

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The following statement was issued Jan. 16 by Socialist Workers Party candidates Dennis Richter for City Council District 12 and Laura Garza for School Board in Los Angeles. The strike by 31,000 teachers in Los Angeles is a battle being…


‘Cuban people know what they are defending’

Vol. 83/No. 4 - January 28, 2019

The following excerpt is from testimony given by José Ramón Fernández before the People’s Court of Havana, July 12, 1999. It’s taken from the chapter “The Cuban People, Rifles in Hand, Were Convinced of Their Cause” in Playa Girón/Bay of…


Over half a million people in US have nowhere to live

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019
Homeless shelter in Los Angeles. California’s homeless population rose 13.7 percent from 2016 to 2017, as high rents and low wages drive hundreds of thousands of working people into shelters or to live on the street. Last year families made up one-third of total homeless population.

As part of the economic upturn in the U.S., more than 550,000 working people were homeless last year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. High rents and low wages account for what would seem to be a…


Half of adults have had family members thrown in jail

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

Another one of the reflections of the capitalist rulers’ crisis today and how it weighs on working people is the significant increase in the number of workers ground up in the U.S. criminal “justice” system. A recent study by Cornell…


‘Yellow vest’ protests respond as French gov’t cracks down

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019
Yellow vest protesters gather at a traffic circle south of Caen in northwest France, Dec. 31.

LONDON — Yellow vest protesters in France have responded to government arrests, attacks and slanders by taking to the streets. Some 50,000 marched throughout France Jan. 5, according to the interior ministry — almost twice as many as the Saturday…