Tag: Pathfinder Books

Book fair in Sulaymaniyah shows gains in Kurdish national struggle

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Pathfinder volunteer Jim White, center, at Sulaymaniyah book fair, Nov. 17-26. Developments in the region and world politics boosted interest in books on lessons of revolutionary struggles.

SULAYMANIYAH, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — The 10-day Sulaymaniyah International Book Fair ended Nov. 26, drawing tens of thousands of people eager to get their hands on books in Kurdish, English and Arabic. Busloads of students and schoolchildren walked up and…

‘Solidarity, internationalism at heart of Cuba’s revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Cuban doctors and some patients at Coyah center in Guinea, Jan. 19, 2015. After 12,000 volunteered, Cuba chose the 256 medical personnel to go to West Africa to fight Ebola.

Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Ubieta has written about the work of Cuba’s internationalist doctors and nurses in some of the…

First Pathfinder e-books for blind readers are available

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

The first six electronic books from Pathfinder Press fully accessible for readers who are blind or have low vision are now available from Bookshare.org. Pathfinder publishes books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and others that present a revolutionary working-class road…

The Jewish question can only be resolved by the working class

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Leon was won from Zionism to Marxism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He wrote the book while a leader of the…

Working class taking power is road to meaningful learning

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
After Cuba’s workers and peasants came to power, Che Guevara, center, led in introducing voluntary labor as the socialist revolution deepened. That way, he said, a worker can see himself not as a commodity, but can “understand his full stature as a human being.”

The French edition of Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning Under Capitalism by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It explains how class…

‘Cuban women have always been on the front lines of the struggle’

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
“March of the Pencils” in Havana Dec. 22, 1961, celebrates success of literacy campaign. About 250,000 volunteers, a majority young women, taught 700,000 adults to read and write.

Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Teté Puebla is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla became second in command of the first all-female platoon in…

Women’s emancipation is tied to working-class fight for power

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Frederick Engels with Clara Zetkin, fellow German revolutionary leader, at international congress in Zurich in August 1893. Engels wrote that only when the exploitation of the working class by capital has been ended “can true equality between men and women become a reality.”

This week’s selection from October Books of the Month is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, first published in 1884. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern…

The FBI: A history of the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt, with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, to right of flag, signs 1934 bill increasing federal police powers for use against the labor movement.

The Spanish-language edition of 50 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 October. It traces…

French book fair: ‘We absolutely have to change the world’

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — “I’m happy to buy this book. We absolutely have to change this world, but first we have to understand it,” said Marie Dechelle, a computer science student in Paris, as she bought the French edition of the…