‘Capitalism won’t disappear by itself, it must be disappeared’

Havana book fair panel discusses importance of scientific, Marxist understanding of history
Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022
April 24 panel at Havana International Book Fair. From left, Róger Calero, Pathfinder editor; Mary-Alice Waters, a leader of Socialist Workers Party and president of Pathfinder Press; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Zuleica Romay, director of Afro-American Studies at Casa de las Américas; Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, lead editor of complete works of José Martí; and Victor Dreke, longtime revolutionary combatant.

HAVANA — “We all know, or at least sense, that the first large land war on the European continent in more than 75 years signals a new stage in the unraveling of the imperialist world order established by the victors…


‘What a truly radical reading of the human past looks like’

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Below is a review by Peter W. Wood of the new Pathfinder title Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity. Wood is the author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project; president of the National Association of Scholars…



‘COVID clinics in socialist Cuba show what is possible’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Food delivery during peak of pandemic in May 2020. Health care workers and other Cubans are proud of role they played in combating pandemic and at Cuba’s 90% vaccination rate.

HAVANA — I had been here two days in late April as part of an international team of volunteers, helping set up the Pathfinder Books stand at the Havana International Book Fair, when I developed COVID-19 symptoms. Had I been…


Cuban people, gov’t respond to hotel disaster in Havana

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Members of well-known Havana baseball team, Industriales, left, gather May 6 along with other Cubans to donate blood shortly after devastating explosion at Hotel Saratoga.

HAVANA — As rescue brigades arrived rapidly at the scene of a deadly gas explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, dozens of local residents had already joined in aiding and evacuating others to safety amid the billowing smoke and dust. Forty-two…


Get and read ‘Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity’

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Capitalism has produced many things, good and bad, in the course of its evolution. The most vital of all the social forces it has created is the working class. Above, workers at Putilov locomotive factory in Petrograd, Russia, meet in July 1920 to elect deputies to city’s soviet.

Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History by Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, George Novack and Mary-Alice Waters; 177 pages, Pathfinder Press, 2021. BY BETSEY STONE Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View…


Cuban working people defend socialist revolution at Bay of Pigs

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022
Celebrating defeat of Washington’s Bay of Pigs invasion by 1,500 U.S.-organized mercenaries, April 1961, Cuban militiamen pose with wreckage of downed U.S. plane in fake Cuban colors. Fidel Castro said U.S. imperialists couldn’t forgive the workers and peasants of Cuba for “making a socialist revolution right under their very nose.”

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is being featured this week to mark the 61st anniversary of this historic event. In under 72 hours, April 17-20, 1961, Cuba’s…


Family farmers in California face soaring prices, drought

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022
Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton visit Will Scott, right, on his Fresno, California, farm April 5 to discuss challenges facing small farmers from rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine, and need for worker-farmer alliance to defend toilers’ livelihoods.

FRESNO, Calif. — Farmer Will Scott invited Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton to his farm here April 5 to discuss how small farmers are affected by sharply rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine and what workers…