Sudan military attacks protests demanding civilian government

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019

Military forces and paramilitary thugs assaulted an encampment of thousands of protesters outside army headquarters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in early June, killing over 120 people, wounding hundreds more and brutally dispersing the rest. The attack comes in response to…


Building a party capable of leading workers to power

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019

This excerpt is from The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It records the struggle to build a party, proletarian in program and composition, that can…


Joyce Meissenheimer: Communist fighter

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019
Joyce Meissenheimer in Toronto in December 2007.

MONTREAL — Joyce Meissenheimer, 96, a member and cadre of the Communist League in Canada for almost 50 years, died in Calgary June 7 of heart failure. Before coming to Canada, Meissenheimer was a fighter against the apartheid regime in…


Celebrating 100 years ‘on right side of history’

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019

OBERLIN, Ohio — More than 300 workers and young people from the U.S. and around the world attended the 2019 International Active Workers Conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party June 13-15 here. A large banner above the stage at…


Massive protests in Hong Kong push back hated extradition bill

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019
June 16 demonstration in Hong Kong drew some 2 million people, largest mobilization in history of former British colony. Beijing fears its impact on working people inside China.

In a victory for democratic and political rights, the biggest mobilizations in Hong Kong’s history forced the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam — after a meeting with top Chinese officials — to suspend moves to pass a hated bill authorizing…


Speak out against bans on ‘Militant’ in prisons!

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019

Florida prison officials have banned at least eight of the last 12 issues of the Militant. We say “at least” because they don’t always inform us the paper has been banned, even though they are required by their own rules…


US hands off Iran! End US economic war!

Bring all US troops home from Middle East now!
Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019
June 24 protest action in Oakland, California, against U.S. threats, sanctions against Iran.

The following statement was issued by David Rosenfeld, currently the Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council in Minneapolis, June 21. The Socialist Workers Party demands: U.S. hands off Iran! U.S. troops out of the Middle East! End the economic…


US sanctions hit hardest against working people

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019

The U.S. government is stepping up threats to use its military might against Iran and tightening economic sanctions whose consequences fall heaviest on the Iranian working people. Washington’s latest pretext for these steps to defend imperialist interests in the Middle…


Vote to erase Calif. mural is blow to art, political rights

Vol. 83/No. 24 - July 8, 2019
Scene from Victor Arnautoff’s mural “Life of Washington” depicting George Washington as slave owner. In a blow to artistic, political rights, San Francisco School Board voted June 25 to destroy the mural, which has been in George Washington High School lobby for eight decades.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — In a blow to artistic and political rights in the name of “political correctness,” the San Francisco School Board voted to destroy the “Life of Washington” mural at George Washington High School here June 25. The…