Malcolm X: ‘It is impossible for capitalism to survive’

Vol. 87/No. 7 - February 20, 2023
Malcolm X, right, meets with Fidel Castro at Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York, Sept. 19, 1960. The Cuban Revolution “overturned the system” Malcolm explained in 1963.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X. An outstanding leader of the struggle for Black rights in the U.S. who also emerged as a leader of the international working class,…


The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us

The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward
Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Rail workers rally July 2022 in Galesburg, Illinois, against carrier bosses’ refusal to address inhumane work schedules, working conditions, and crew sizes. President Joseph Biden and bipartisan Congress barred right to strike.

The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward is the product of trade union and broader political work over the last year by SWP members responding to deepening cracks in the world order…


1934 Teamsters strike showed the way for workers everywhere

Vol. 87/No. 4 - January 30, 2023
Minneapolis Teamsters defeat attacks by police, bosses’ thugs in “Battle of Deputies Run,” May 21, 1934. Class-struggle leadership mobilized union, support, ensuring strike was victorious.

The Communist League of America 1932-34 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s January Books of the Month. Under the inspiration of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Cannon helped found the Communist Party in the U.S. in 1919.…


The capitalist rulers turn to fascism to smash the working class

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Teamsters Local 544 Union Defense Guard in 1938. Showing road for workers toward taking power, unionists across Minneapolis-St. Paul area swelled its ranks to block mobilization of employer-funded strikebreakers, fascist thugs.

The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The term “fascist” is falsely used by liberals and the middle-class left today as an anti-working-class epithet. Trotsky…


Titles on politics, history draw at Montreal Book Fair

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

MONTREAL — There was increased interest in books about working-class and revolutionary history and politics at the Pathfinder booth at the Nov. 23-27 annual Montreal Book Fair. Volunteers from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City sold 138 books and…


Counterrevolutionary coup led to US invasion of Grenada

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Fidel Castro said social program of Maurice Bishop, center, who led 1979-83 workers and farmers government in Grenada, “had support of the immense majority.” Counterrevolutionary coup in October 1983 led by Bernard Coard destroyed the revolution, led to US invasion.

To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…


African Studies conference discusses road forward

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

PHILADELPHIA — Some 1,400 people, mostly from universities in the United States, Canada and some African countries, attended the African Studies Association conference here Nov. 17-19. They discussed the social and political crises produced by imperialist exploitation of the continent’s…


‘Cuba’s revolution grew in extraordinary school of experience’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Che Guevara, left, with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1962. They led workers and peasants to take political power in 1959, and use it to make a socialist revolution. The Cuban Revolution “discovered Marxism by its own methods,” Guevara said, “in living contact with the people.”

Che Guevara Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Ernesto Che Guevara was an Argentine-born revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and his Rebel Army, becoming an outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution. They…


Volunteers win bookstore, library orders for Pathfinder books

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

This fall’s campaign to get Pathfinder books into bookstores, libraries and classrooms is well underway with volunteers on course to meet their goal of 115 orders by the end of January. So far, 81 orders have been won for books…


On eve of WWII, rulers task FBI as Washington’s political police

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Above, armed FBI raid Aug. 8 on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. Inset, Sept. 1 press conference by Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico hits FBI harassment. Democrats seek to refurbish FBI as political police, targeting working class, opponents of imperialist war.

Fifty Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It marks the capitalist rulers’ decision…