Malcolm X: ‘It is impossible for capitalism to survive’

Vol. 82/No. 9 - March 5, 2018

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Malcolm X published in the March-April, 1965 issue of the Young Socialist, conducted Jan. 18 of that year by Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard of the Young Socialist Alliance. A month later,…


How Lenin championed fight against national oppression

Vol. 82/No. 7 - February 19, 2018

Below is an excerpt from Lenin’s Final Fight, 1922-23, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In these speeches and writings Lenin, the central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle…


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…


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…


How Russian communists led 1950s strikes in Stalin’s camps

Vol. 82/No. 4 - January 29, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Vorkuta (1950-53): Oppositional currents and the mine strikes” from Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The author, Brigitte Gerland, an East German communist, spent some eight…


To rule, the working class must master all past culture

Vol. 82/No. 2 - January 15, 2018

Below is an excerpt from “Culture and Socialism,” an essay in Art and Revolution by Leon Trotsky, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Trotsky was one of the central leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution. The essay is based…