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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…

Malcolm X: ‘An outstanding leader of the entire working class’

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

Malcolm X speaks at SEIU Local 1199 rally called to fight for union recognition in New York City in July 1962. Malcolm praised Local 1199 President Leon Davis, who spent 30 days in jail for refusing to comply with court order telling him to call off 56-day hospital workers strike.

Malcolm X Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The book contains an interview and four talks given to young people in Ghana, the U.K. and the United States in the last months…

In crisis, rulers will turn to fascism, but workers have power to win

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

Mass rally by Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, Jan. 6, 1938. Hague’s cops barred unions, communists from the city, broke up union meetings. SWP leader James P. Cannon warned that Hague was “an incipient American fascist,” and a deadly danger to the working class.

The wave of Jew-hatred that came on top of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel poses a deadly danger both to Jews and to workers everywhere. Jew-hatred will be an indispensable weapon of any fascist movement the bosses…

Defeat of Hamas, fight against Jew-hatred are union business

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Everything the bosses and their governments do is aimed at protecting their investments, markets and profits and their cutthroat national interests against rival capitalist regimes. Workers have an opposite class standpoint — we are one international class of toilers with…

Trotsky: ‘Our hope rests on unleashing the European revolution’

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

Leon Trotsky, commander of the Soviet army after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, addresses Red Guard combatants in 1918. The Bolsheviks, Trotsky said, pinned their hopes on the Russian Revolution inspiring toilers across Europe to emulate their example and take political power.

Leon Trotsky Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt is from “The Organization of Power,” Trotsky’s Oct. 26, 1917, defense of the Bolshevik Revolution, which he helped lead. The Second Congress of the Soviets,…

Road to end Jew-hating violence is for workers to take power

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023

In 1939 hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution on the ship St. Louis were forced back to Europe after Washington and Ottawa denied them entry. Many died in the Holocaust. Imperialist powers bar on Jews before, during, after the war helped lead to creation of Israel.

Below is an excerpt from the review of the new edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon published in the Feb. 1, 2021, issue of the Militant. It has been updated since Hamas’ Oct. 7…

Bolsheviks set example in building a revolutionary workers party

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

Petrograd Soviet meets in September 1917 as working-class support for Bolshevik Party expands, culminating in Russian Revolution. Socialist Workers Party is being built along the same course, forging a revolutionary working-class party in program and composition to take power.

The French edition of The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the November Books of the Month from Pathfinder Press. It explains that working people will only truly…

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…

Fidel Castro on Grenada leader: ‘Bishop was a true revolutionary’

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro at 1980 May Day rally in Cuba. Castro said Grenada Revolution was ”a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean” worthy of support.

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people to take political power in a popular revolution in 1979 on…

SWP in 1938: Open US doors to victims of Hitler’s Nazi terror!

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel highlighted the danger of Jew-hating violence worldwide as the crisis of capitalism grows. Below are excerpts from “Theses on the Jewish question” and “Open the doors to victims of Hitler’s…