Attacks on Arab bus drivers shows challenges in Israel

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

A spike in violence against bus drivers in Jerusalem sheds light on the challenges and the opportunities to overcome divisions in the working class and to strengthen the unions in Israel. There are several bus lines serving the Jerusalem area…


Stalin’s ‘Popular Front’ in France blocked workers taking power

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers occupy Renault auto plant in France, May 1936, part of wave of sit-down strikes that posed possibility for fight by workers to take power. Communist, Socialist parties in alliance with liberal capitalists in Popular Front government blocked the revolutionary upsurge.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) by Leon Trotsky. Growing class battles across Europe, from rising proletarian struggles in France to the Spanish Revolution, posed the need for workers…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

The exact cause of the deadly crash of a 34-year-old United Parcel Service cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 4 hasn’t yet been determined. But the deaths of 14 people were not “accidents.” Nor are the hundreds of other lives…


Cuba’s socialist revolution: an example

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

Faced with devastation from Hurricane Melissa, Cuba’s government and its people acted to ensure not a single person was killed or left to fend for themselves. In contrast, in Jamaica at least 32 are dead with many hard-hit areas still…


‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, candidata del Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores a gobernador de Nueva Jersey, trajo solidaridad a protesta de auxiliares de vuelo en aeropuerto de Newark.

SWP candidates point road forward for working class WEST NEW YORK, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and all of its candidates are part of the working class. Workers uniting to act in our class interests is the only way…


Support grows for band opposing Putin’s regime

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

In a sign of the growing rejection of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his brutal war on the toilers in Ukraine, support has continued to mushroom for the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The group — 18-year-old…


Stop US rulers’ assault on the sovereignty of Venezuela!

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

The U.S. rulers are stepping up their assault on the sovereignty of Venezuela and other Caribbean nations, blowing up boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. In three new attacks since Oct. 27, 21 people were killed, bringing…


Forged by Cuba’s socialist revolution, volunteers help Africa advance

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Guinean medical students about to leave for Cuba for their final year of medical studies in 2005. In striped shirt, Leonardo Ramírez, leader of Cuba’s medical volunteers in Equatorial Guinea. Second from right, Ana Morales, first secretary of Cuban Embassy, and also a doctor.

The Spanish edition of Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The two authors joined a Militant reporting team there in…


Campaign boosts reach of ‘Militant,’ books, party fund

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

While the 2025 elections are over, the eight-week campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to  introduce the party to working people and expand the readership of the Militant and books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders continues through Nov. 18.…


After 3 months on strike, IAM at Boeing rejects offer

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists Local 837 have been on strike for three months at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. On Oct. 26 they voted down the company’s…