Constitutional rights fight key in class struggle

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024
FBI raids Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis June 1941, as Roosevelt administration led assault on constitutional freedoms to silence opposition in labor movement to U.S. rulers’ preparations for World War II.

Defending constitutional freedoms from attack by the capitalist rulers is at the center of the class struggle. That fact is borne out by the latest attack on Donald Trump, barring him from the Colorado and Maine ballots. The unqualified defense…


Fight attacks on political rights! Defend Trump’s right to ballot

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

Without even a court hearing, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows threw Donald Trump off the presidential ballot Dec. 28, following a similar ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court. Both decisions were based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, adopted…


Colorado ruling Trump off ballot is blow

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

This statement by Socialist Workers Party National Campaign Director John Studer was issued Dec. 20. In a 4-3 ruling by Colorado’s all-Democratic-Party-appointed Supreme Court Dec. 19, Donald Trump was barred from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in 2024. It…


Defense of constitutional freedoms crucial for the working class today

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

As President Joseph Biden’s reelection bid flounders, the heart of the Democratic Party’s 2024 campaign is to use the courts to stop Donald Trump’s campaign. Their legal tactics run from lawsuits aimed at ruling him off the ballot for “insurrection”…


Democrats’ assault on constitutional rights aims to keep Trump off ballot

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023

A growing series of lawsuits that challenge constitutional protections needed by working people are proceeding against Donald Trump. They’re scheduled to be heard between now and the 2024 election. Among the cases are lawsuits seeking to get the Republican front-runner…



US rulers launch Palmer raids, seek to crush Communist parties

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Mass arrests of members of communist movement, union fighters during notorious raids carried out by Democrat Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Special targets were newly formed Communist parties. Up to 10,000 worker militants were detained, many deported.

Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt from “New capitalist repressions” explains how the U.S. rulers trampled on constitutional freedoms to crush union militancy…


Political freedoms are a key issue in US politics today

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

Even before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Democrats, the liberal media and middle-class left did everything in their power to bring him down. From the moment they set the FBI to spy on his campaign, to the multitude…


Drop frame-up charges on Uhuru 3!

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

TAMPA, Fla. — Forty people packed the U.S. Middle District federal courtroom here Sept. 28 to support African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel as their…