Placement: Books of the Month

Black troops aided fight against Washington’s war in Philippines

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Blacks in America’s Wars — The Shift in Attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam by Robert W. Mullen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt below reveals a little known side of the 1898…

‘Social solidarity: Moral foundation of Cuba’s revolution’

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Cuban teacher in Luanda, Angola, with students, largely youth orphaned by apartheid South Africa’s invasions from 1975 to 1988. Cuba’s 425,000 volunteers, military and civilian, helped defeat South African forces. “The principles of our revolution are the moral foundation of our struggle,” Puebla said.

The Spanish edition of Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the victorious…

Imprisoned revolutionaries fight Stalinist rule in USSR in 1950s

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
1928 protest at exile colony in Siberia, Russia. Center banner with portraits of V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky says, “Long live dictatorship of proletariat.” Fight against Stalinist bureaucracy was to reestablish proletarian internationalism of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution under Lenin.

Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union, from the late 1920s to the 1970s, challenging the anti-working-class Stalinist regime and its repression.…

Myth of women’s inferiority was born with class society

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Striking Warrior Met miners, families and supporters rally in Brookwood, Alabama, Aug. 4. Women gaining industrial jobs have advanced working class, fight for women’s emancipation.

Problems of Women’s Liberation by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Reed was a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party from 1940 until her death in 1979. She wrote and spoke about…

Thomas Sankara: ‘We are heirs of the world’s revolutions’

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Vaccinated children, families gather in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in August 1986 to celebrate their revolution. Popular revolutionary government led by Sankara mobilized working people to advance mass health campaigns, women’s equality and other social measures.

The French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. In August 1983 Sankara led an uprising in the…

Che Guevara: ‘Other nations summon my assistance’

Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Delegates from revolutionary organizations in the Americas clap as Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses August 1967 conference of Organization of Latin American Solidarity in Havana. The slogan beside the image of Che is from the Second Declaration of Havana. It reads, “The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.”

Below is an excerpt from The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. The diary recounts the political and military campaign Argentine-born Guevara, a leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, led in 1966-67…

Building a proletarian party on the eve of imperialist war

Vol. 85/No. 34 - September 20, 2021
Sit-down strike in 1937 by United Auto Workers at General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan. When political pressures came down on the Socialist Workers Party on eve of the second imperialist world war, James P. Cannon led the fight to deepen the party’s proletarian orientation.

This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. A companion volume to In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky, it records the fight in the…

Working class must be vanguard of all the exploited people

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Peasants rally in support of Russian Revolution. When Bolshevik Party led the Soviets to take power, they abolished private ownership in land, turned farms over to those who tilled them.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Vol. 2). Delegates came to the congress from 37 countries…

Stalin school of falsification led attack against Bolshevism

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
V.I. Lenin, above left, leader of Russian Revolution, pictured alongside Leon Trotsky, commander of Soviet Red Army, Nov. 7, 1919. Inset, Joseph Stalin ordered Trotsky and others crudely airbrushed out of history as his bureaucratic machine prepared purge of those revolutionary leaders fighting for Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course.

The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Trotsky was part of the central leadership of the mighty Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution of 1917 that transformed world history. He was part…