‘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…


More Pathfinder books are now up at bookshare.org

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

Spread the word! Pathfinder’s latest title, The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward, is now available at www.bookshare.org for workers and others who are blind or face other barriers to reading print…


‘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…


The low point of labor resistance is behind us

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

Below are excerpts from the preface to The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters. Copyright © 2023 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission. The articles and documents…


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…




More fiscal disorder coming as crisis of capitalism deepens

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023
Recent bank failures revived fears of another global financial crisis. White House claims promise of billions to corporate depositors won’t harm working people, but we will have to pay.

Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Written on the eve of the 21st century, it covers the fast-breaking…