Joint Olympics team is an advance for Korean people

Socialist Workers Party says ‘Korea is one!’
Vol. 82/No. 6 - February 12, 2018
South Korean hockey players give bouquets to North Korean players Jan. 25 at Jincheon, South Korea, sports complex. This is first joint team between North and South Korea since 1991.

For the first time in 27 years, North and South Korea are fielding a joint team at an international sports event. Athletes from the two Koreas will also march together under a “unification flag” at the Feb. 9 opening ceremony…


Sankara: Goal of revolution is transfer of power to the toilers

Vol. 82/No. 6 - February 12, 2018

Below is an excerpt from We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions by Thomas Sankara, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Sankara led the revolution in Burkina Faso (called Upper Volta until 1984) from 1983 until his assassination in…


US rulers debate deal on Dreamers, immigrants

Vol. 82/No. 6 - February 12, 2018

In his State of the Union speech Jan. 30, President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass bipartisan legislation that would more than double the number of “dreamers” protected from deportation and open the door for them to gain citizenship.…


What’s behind working-class uprising, discontent in Iran

Vol. 82/No. 6 - February 12, 2018
Two weeks of working-class protests began in Mashhad, Iran, above, and spread to 90 other cities and towns, ignited by opposition to cleric-led regime’s reactionary wars abroad.

The mounting toll on working people from the wars being waged throughout the Middle East by Iran’s capitalist class was the catalyst for the working-class uprising that swept 90 cities and towns across the country starting Dec. 28 for a…


Fight for voting rights of former prisoners makes gains in Florida

Vol. 82/No. 6 - February 12, 2018

Supporters of political rights in Florida have gathered more than 766,000 signatures to put an amendment to the state constitution granting voting rights to over 1.5 million people who had been convicted of felonies on the ballot this November. Floridians…


Protests answer article pushing Jew-hatred in Puerto Rico

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

After a barrage of criticism, El Nuevo Día,Puerto Rico’s largest circulation daily, removed from its website the Jan. 8 anti-Semitic article by columnist Wilda Rodríguez titled “What Does the ‘Jew’ Want With the Colony.” In the column Rodríguez repeated the…


Survivors of Grenfell Tower fire demand housing, safety

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

LONDON — Over 2,000 people marched here Jan. 14 to mark seven months since the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 71 people and left hundreds homeless. The fire was fed by cladding on the building’s exterior that was a known…


Cuban Revolution brought millions into political action

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt from The First and Second Declarations of Havana. Its Spanish-language edition is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt is from the preface, written by Mary-Alice Waters, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

February 5, 1993 Another battle in the fight to defend women’s right to abortion has been waged in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of pro-choice activists successfully mobilized against Operation Rescue’s attempt to shut down abortion clinics in that city January 23.…


Workers in Venezuela face challenges in capitalist crisis

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

Workers in Venezuela face growing challenges in the midst of the deepening capitalist economic crisis there, exacerbated by sanctions and other attacks from Washington. Oil production — the country’s main source of hard currency — is at a 28-year low.…