War games and new arms race show threat of war is growing

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

In a sign of increasing tensions and the dangers of new wars between major capitalist powers in today’s world, 11 Russian and Chinese warships conducted joint maneuvers off the coast of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands at the end of…


Maui wildfire disaster caused by capitalism, gov’t disdain

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

A rapidly moving wildfire rampaged across Lahaina, a historic town on Maui in Hawaii Aug. 8, laying waste to over 2,000 buildings, mainly residences, and causing the death of over 100 people to date, all but two unidentified, with more…



SWP campaigns for a program to unite workers and farmers in struggle

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
“I want nothing but the real facts. We have to understand the world today,” construction worker Lorenzo Rainwater told SWP candidates Henry Dennison, left, and Vincent Auger, right, in Seattle Aug. 9, as he bought the Militant and asked them to come back for further discussion.

FRESNO, Calif. — Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, addressed a meeting of the African American Farmers of California at a local restaurant here Aug. 11. Thirteen people took part. In brief remarks, Garza noted…


Military coup in Niger heightens tensions in Africa

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani overthrew the government of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger July 26, amid deteriorating conditions facing millions of workers and farmers as well as attacks by Islamist terrorist groups. The takeover sharpened tensions between the French imperialist rulers,…


Hotel workers protest violence against pickets in California

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Striking hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, rally in Long Beach, California, Aug. 11 in fight for contract and against violent attacks by hotel security on picket lines.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hundreds of hotel workers and their supporters protested outside the Hotel Maya in Long Beach Aug. 11, and at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and the Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point the next…


Bus drivers strike at Autobus Venise in fight for higher wages

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

SALABERRY-DE VALLEYFIELD, Quebec — Unifor Local 700 bus drivers working for Autobus Venise commemorated four months on strike here Aug. 3. They are fighting against inadequate and patronizing boss proposals. “We want to negotiate, but we won’t negotiate for nothing,”…


Bosses drive for profits, rail workers lose lives and limbs

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Rail workers picket North American Rail Shippers’ Kansas City conference, May 2022, during contract negotiations. Four rail workers have been killed on the job in the last seven weeks.

Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and fires contaminated East Palestine, Ohio, working people everywhere have been paying attention to the job conditions and life disruptions the bosses’ drive for profits inflicts on rail workers and their families. During…


Cuba’s working people defended their revolution arms in hand

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Cuban militia members celebrate successfully defending their socialist revolution against an April 1961 invasion at Playa Girón fomented by the capitalist rulers in Washington.

Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The excerpt is from the chapter “There will be a victorious revolution in the…


Oberlin sues insurance companies for refusal to pay college’s legal bill

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023
Working people gather in solidarity with Gibson family at their bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, 2022. Gibsons won lawsuit against Oberlin College for ongoing campaign of race-baiting slanders.

A small family-owned bakery with delicious pastries in Oberlin, Ohio, is in the news again, but not for anything they’ve done. After a six-year battle, the owners of Gibson’s Bakery finally defeated efforts by Oberlin College administrators to destroy them…