How Minneapolis Teamsters organized to win strikes in 1934

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Minneapolis cops use tear gas against 10,000 unemployed workers protesting April 6, 1934. Teamsters strikes showed how to organize to win, electrifying broad masses of working people.

Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It is the story of the Teamsters’ organizing drive in Minneapolis where rank-and-file workers won hard-fought strikes in 1934, defeating combined strikebreaking efforts by the…


French election reflects impact of crisis hitting working people

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Over 100,000 marched in some 250 rallies across France May 1, 2022, including in Toulouse, above, demanding President Macron drop his move to raise workers’ retirement age. Protesters called themselves “gilets jaunes.” Banner reads, “Yellow vests of all countries, unite!”

The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…


Fight for workers power to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

Washington, London and other “democratic” imperialist governments refused to offer Jews facing the Nazi Holocaust a refuge before, during and after World War II. The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. With nowhere else to go, thousands of Jews interned in…


Moscow’s war aims to destroy the Ukrainian people, culture

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Hundreds of people volunteered to clear debris, save survivors at Ukraine’s main children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv after missile hit July 8 in Moscow’s deadliest air attacks in months.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in 2022, he minced no words in explaining Ukraine is not really a nation at all and has no right to be one. “Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia,”…


Sharp conflicts in South China Sea pose threat of future wars

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024
Map shows controversial “nine-dash line” used by China’s rulers to claim 80% of South China Sea. Beijing is building fortified islets in area leading to sharp conflicts with rival governments of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Taiwan, many backed by Washington.

China’s Coast Guard vessels repeatedly rammed and then troops boarded Philippine naval vessels, injuring several sailors in the Spratly Islands June 17. The clash was the most violent encounter to date between Chinese and Filipino forces whose rulers both claim…


Communist League: Protest rising attacks on Jews in Canada

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024

MONTREAL — Since the deadly Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas in Israel there has been a rise in Jew-hating violence worldwide. Here in Canada, Hamas supporters have shot bullets at schools; carried out physical attacks, threats and vandalism at synagogues;…


NTSB: Norfolk Southern’s actions ‘unprecedented and reprehensible’

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024
Plumes of smoke in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 6, 2023, after Norfolk Southern rail bosses deliberately set toxic chemicals on fire in “controlled” burn, three days after derailment.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — In its June 25 final hearing on the February 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment and disaster for residents here, the National Transportation Safety Board said the rail company bears full responsibility. Board Chair Jennifer Homendy called their…



Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024

Two dozen letters have been sent to the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee urging it to reverse the ban prison authorities have placed on Militant issue no. 17 at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida. More are on…


‘Workers need to form our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024
Deb Snell, head of nurses’ union at University of Vermont Medical Center, announces strike to take place July 12 at press conference in Burlington July 2. Socialist Workers Party campaigners petitioning there to put Rachele Fruit on the ballot are building support for the nurses’ fight.

Rachele Fruit: the working class alternative in 2024 The widely discussed June 27 debate between President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump confirmed that neither capitalist candidate — nor their parties — are capable of addressing the social and…