For Cuban working people, revolution was ‘the only way forward’

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Banner of revolutionary-minded youth movement of Orthodox Party leads march against coup by U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista in Havana in 1952. From these beginnings, Fidel Castro organized the July 26 Movement, which led working people to take power into their own hands.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April is the Spanish edition of  Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58, a Participant’s Account  by Armando Hart. One of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Hart was a central…


Stalin’s oppression, Nazi occupation fuel fight for Ukraine independence

Vol. 86/No. 14 - April 11, 2022
Grain taken from Ukrainian peasants near Kyiv, 1930, amid Stalinist forced collectivization and national oppression, led to widespread famine and death of almost 4 million Ukrainians.

As Ukrainian working people, arms in hand, defend their country’s sovereignty against Moscow’s invasion today, the Militant features Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, which contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union that challenged the anti-working-class regime under Joseph…


Stalinism bears main responsibility for Hitler’s rise to power

Vol. 86/No. 11 - March 21, 2022
Nazi stormtroopers occupy union offices in Berlin 1933. Stalinist line that Social Democrats were “social fascists,” refusal to collaborate with them in fight against Hitler, allowed fascists to come to power without facing serious working-class combat.

The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is this week’s Books of the Month selection. Written during the heat of battle against the rising Nazi movement in the early 1930s, he explains the counterrevolutionary course…


‘We’ve entered an era of instability, economic crises and wars’

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022
Children sit on toppled statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Sept. 11, 1991, after Soviet Union shattered. U.S. capitalist rulers thought this meant they won the Cold War, and that would bring global stability under their dominion. That has been proven utterly false.

To help explain what led to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, this special feature has excerpts from “Their Transformation and Ours,” a Socialist Workers Party resolution adopted in 2005 and “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun.” Both articles appear in New…


‘If the US attacks Cuba, they will face a war of the entire people’

Vol. 86/No. 8 - February 28, 2022
Enrique Carreras, second from left, went to North Vietnam in 1969 to learn how their air force organized to defend against U.S. imperialist assault. His goal was to offer solidarity and strengthen Cuba’s ability to defend its revolution against Washington’s attacks.

The Spanish edition of Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Division Gen. Carreras…



Website upgrade eases search for revolutionary books

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

Recent enhancements to the website of Pathfinder Press — www.pathfinderpress.com — make it easier for working people and youth to find their way to books presenting the lessons of 175 years of revolutionary working-class struggle, through the eyes of participants,…


Thomas Sankara spoke for the oppressed all over the world

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

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 February. In August 1983 Sankara led a revolution in the former French colony of…


Malcolm X: ‘We’re living at a time of worldwide revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Malcolm X emerged as an outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation. An intransigent opponent of the U.S. government and its imperialist policies,…


Volunteers find more interest in books by revolutionaries

Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022

Volunteers working to get Pathfinder books into libraries and bookstores across North America are reporting increased interest in the wide range of revolutionary literature the publisher produces, including books by revolutionary leaders like Fidel Castro, Thomas Sankara, leaders of the…