How workers mobilized to resist the McCarthyite witch hunt

Vol. 87/No. 27 - July 24, 2023
Protest against House Un-American Activities Committee hearing at San Francisco City Hall in 1960, after being hit by cop firehoses. In 1953 HUAC met in the same place targeting unionists as “subversives.” Thousands protested, forcing “government witch hunters to cut and run.”

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. Out of his experiences in the labor battles of the 1930s, Preis became a staff…


US rulers double down on lies about Cuba-China ‘spy bases’

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023
May 28 protest at Miami airport against U.S. rulers’ six-decades-long economic and political war on Cuba. Washington’s China “spy base” smears are used to justify tightening embargo.

The administration of President Joseph Biden — along with the Wall Street Journal — is stepping up a drumbeat of baseless allegations that the Cuban government has teamed up with Beijing to set up a spy station in Cuba. Trying…


‘A road forward to raise workers’ confidence in our own capacities’

Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023
Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for U.S. Senate from California, speaks at closing panel.

OBERLIN, Ohio — The political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes adopted by the June 12 expanded leadership meeting to guide party work culminated several days of plenary talks, summary presentations, classes and discussions during the international…



‘There is no solution to the Jewish question under capitalism’

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
When fascist groups called a rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939, 50,000 working people came out in New York for a countermobilization called by the Socialist Workers Party.

The French edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Leon’s centurieslong history of the Jewish people and the struggle against Jew-hatred was begun on the eve…


‘Malcolm X told the uncompromising revolutionary truth’

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023
Malcolm X speaking at the Militant Labor Forum in New York, May 29, 1964. Jack Barnes said he was “the face and the authentic voice of the forces of the coming American revolution.”

On the 98th anniversary of his birthday this month, the Militant is featuring a selection from  Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes said that “Malcolm…


‘The woman question can’t be divorced from the class question’

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023
Women workers from coal processing plants join miners’ protest demanding payment of back wages on Independence Square, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 30, 2020. Evelyn Reed wrote that beauty comes out of humanity’s evolution through labor, not profit-driven fashions and cosmetics.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed and Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. What began as a 1954 debate in the Militant over how big-business marketing of cosmetics…



Great Strike of 1877 showed the power of the US working class

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Rail strike in West Virginia, above, set off 1877 general strike. Karl Marx wrote that the policies of the capitalist rulers would “turn the Negroes” and “convert the farmers of the West” into allies of the workers, forging the class forces that would make a revolution in the U.S.

The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. After five years of economic depression, West Virginia railroad workers went on strike in the face of wage cuts and…