‘Culture enables man to be more complete, revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Che Guevara at the time of victorious battle of Santa Clara, which sealed the defeat of U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Harry Villegas is at right, Aleida March is second from left. Che played a leading role in everything from literacy classes for Rebel Army combatants in the mountains to theater and ballet for the soldiers under his command in La Cabaña fortress in early 1959.

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 January. The excerpt below is from an interview…



Pathfinder books move at Montreal, Manila book fairs

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Recent book fairs in Montreal and Manila show growing interest among working people in literature addressing key political questions they face as a result of deepening worldwide economic and social crises, growing capitalist competition and war threats, and rising struggles…


Socialist revolution will accelerate liberation of art and culture

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
From left, Mexican artist Diego Rivera, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and surrealist Andre Breton collaborating on “Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art” in Mexico in 1938. It called for freedom from censorship, capitalist or Stalinist alike, and artistic independence.

Art and Revolution: Writings on Literature, Politics, and Culture by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Trotsky was a central leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the early Communist International. After…


Fight for women’s rights crucial for the class struggle today

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021
Bakery Workers union picket at Nabisco plant in Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 10, helped win nationwide battle for new contract. Women are in front ranks of struggles to strengthen union movement.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women by Evelyn Reed, Joseph Hansen, and Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Below are excerpts from the preface by Waters to the Cuban edition of the book.…


SWP fought US gov’t to open doors to Jews fleeing Nazi terror

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
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 Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate the proletarian internationalist course of the 1917…


SWP leads fight against FBI attacks on the working class

Vol. 85/No. 45 - December 6, 2021
FBI raid on SWP headquarters, June 27, 1941, saluted by Minneapolis dailies, was part of targeting party and Minneapolis Teamsters on eve of U.S. entry in second imperialist world war.

FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit against Government Spying is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It is about the SWP’s 1973-87 political and legal battle against decades of spying, harassment and…


Che joined fighters in Bolivia to advance the socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Militia during 1952 Bolivian national revolution. Decades of working-class struggles and a deepening prerevolutionary situation in southern countries of Latin America led Guevara to join Bolivian fighters in 1966 in an effort to begin socialist revolution across the continent.

Pombo: A Man of Che’s guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia 1966-68 by Harry Villegas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Villegas became a combatant in the Rebel Army of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel…


Pathfinder titles a big hit at Oregon book festival

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of people attended the Portland Book Festival here Nov. 13, where publishers and booksellers set up showcases of their featured titles. After almost two years of pandemic-justified government lockdowns, many were eager to get out to…


Socialist revolution in Russia set out to emancipate women

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Women at literacy class after triumph of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. “Social construction,” Leon Trotsky writes, must improve “the position of mother and child.” Without child care, health care, culture reaching women, including in the countryside, “socialism is unthinkable.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Trotsky describes how under the leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party workers and peasants fought to defend their revolution and to transform…