Cuba’s internationalist volunteers product of socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022
Cuban medical brigade at Ebebiyin hospital, Equatorial Guinea, July 28, 2008, with Guinean students, third and fourth from left, is example of internationalism of Cuba’s workers, farmers.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The two joined a Militant reporting team there in 2005 and 2008, witnessing both…


Pathfinder books draw interest at American Library conference

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

WASHINGTON — Pathfinder Press sales volunteers came from seven cities and towns across North America to staff the Pathfinder booth here at the first in-person American Library Association conference in three years. Almost 14,000 attended the June 24-27 event. The…


‘Woman’s equality is part of working-class struggle for power’

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
V.I. Lenin, leader of Bolshevik Revolution, with Clara Zetkin, center, and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. Lenin and Zetkin worked together on resolution for Communist International.

The special feature this week is excerpts from an interview Clara Zetkin did with V.I. Lenin in 1920, part of preparations for her drafting a resolution for communist work among women for the Third Congress of the Communist International a…


From prison, Cannon proposed SWP expand reach of ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Workers picket General Motors plant in Michigan, part of 1945-46 nationwide 113-day strike by 320,000 United Auto Workers members. Socialist Workers Party leader James P. Cannon, jailed for SWP’s revolutionary program, wrote to help prepare party for bold campaign with Militant as rising labor battles began as World War II ended.

Letters from Prison: A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-WWII Labor Battles by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of June’s Books of the Month. Cannon, with 17 other cadres of the SWP and…


Women played the leading role in prehistoric society

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Reed (1905-79) was a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and participant in the women’s liberation movement of…


‘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…


Fidel Castro: ‘Maurice Bishop was a true revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
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 May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…


Pathfinder books get interest at London Book Fair

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Pathfinder books get interest at London Book Fair

LONDON — Volunteers from five countries staffed the Pathfinder booth at the first London Book Fair in three years April 5-7. Their goal was to expand the distribution of books that present the lessons of decades of revolutionary working-class struggle,…


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…


Response at LA book festival boosts national drive

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…