‘Uncle Sam is all over the world, but won’t act for our rights here’

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018
Malcolm X addresses mass meeting in Selma, Alabama, Feb. 4, 1965, organized to build fight for right to vote. He spoke alongside Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Coretta Scott King.

Below is an excerpt from Malcolm X Talks to Young People, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. This speech, titled “See for Yourself, Listen for Yourself, Think for Yourself,” was given to high-school-age youth from McComb, Mississippi,…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018

November 29, 1993 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At 7:00 a.m. November 18, some 21,000 flight attendants struck American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier. American Airlines’ operations were paralyzed in the opening hours of the strike, according to flight attendant…


Letters

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018

Stop prison abuse! As you know, Pennsylvania prison mail now goes through Smart Communications in Florida. I received a letter from my mother tonight that took 18 days to get here! I would like to read your Sept. 17 issue…




Solidarity, struggle is road to unite the working class

SWP says ‘Build unions, chart course to take political power’
Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018
Carole Lesnick, left, who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. House from Oakland, joins striking Marriott hotel workers on picket line there. SWP calls for need to build unions.

The Socialist Workers Party ran 19 candidates for U.S. Senate, governorships and other offices across the country in the 2018 midterm elections, speaking out against the capitalist rulers’ attacks on workers, farmers and others. They explained that workers need to…


US troops out of Korea, Middle East, Afghanistan!

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018

Under Democratic and Republican presidents alike, the U.S. government has been embroiled virtually nonstop in wars to defend U.S. capitalist interests for the last 28 years. The 1990-91 Gulf War and ensuing combat that went on and off through this…


Marriott strike makes gains, picketing goes on at 19 hotels

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018

SAN DIEGO — Workers at Marriott’s Westin San Diego Gaslamp hotel voted to accept a new contract after their more than monthlong strike here Nov. 11. The settlement came a few days after 100 strikers, members of UNITE HERE Local…


Saudi, Tehran fueled war in Yemen brings death, famine

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018
Protest in Taiz, Yemen, Oct. 4, against ruinous impact of war between forces backed by rulers of Saudi Arabia and Houthis backed by rulers in Iran. Millions face cholera, famine conditions.

Intensified bombing by the Saudi Arabian air force and an allied ground offensive by pro-government forces against the Houthi-held port of Hodeida in Yemen began in early November, after Washington urged its Saudi ally to hold cease-fire talks with the…