Tag: Page 8

‘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…

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…

Mother Jones: All workers must unite to fight common foe

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Painting of Mother Jones around 1900 leading protest by union workers. Communist leader Leon Trotsky called her a ”heroic American proletarian” with “unflagging devotion to working people,” noting she had “contempt for traitors, careerists among working-class ‘leaders.’”

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter. From the end of the Civil War until her death in 1930 at age 100, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones tirelessly…

Lenin: ‘Oppressed nations have the right to self-determination’

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin, center, at Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, 1920. Lenin explained the need to back the fight for national liberation in colonies and semicolonies, for the toilers to organize independent of the imperialists and their capitalist allies there.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1). This excerpt is from a report to the…