Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years 1848-1917 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This is the first of two volumes covering class struggles and political battles behind the development of a Marxist leadership in the U.S. As a young leader of the Minneapolis Teamsters in the 1930s, Dobbs joined what became the Socialist Workers Party. He was SWP national secretary from 1953 to 1972 and the party’s presidential candidate four times. This volume covers the founding of the international communist movement by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848 and its exp ..read more

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April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albanian refugees from Kosova, “uncivilized” Serbs seeking “ethnic cleansing,” and corpses. Even to those repelled by the brutality that U.S., British and German warplanes are unleashing on the people of Yugoslavia, the message is: these are helpless victims who can only be saved by the “civilized” military forces of NATO led by Washington. This is false. These war images reflect the contempt the ruling rich have for working people everywhere, espe ..read more

The Joseph Biden administration and liberal media praying for his reelection describe the latest government economic reports at the beginning of April as big improvements for everyone. But working people, whose experiences are quite different, aren’t buying it. “What’s Wrong With the Economy? It’s You, Not the Data,” an article in the Never-Trump Wall Street Journal argued April 4, blaming working people for not grasping how things are getting better. After all, the article asserts, “inflation has moved in the right direction” with “unemployment near its lowest in half a century.” “When it com ..read more

New Jersey, New York SWP candidates explain program BY ROY LANDERSEN UNION CITY, N.J. — “Every four years the Socialist Workers Party has a special opportunity to contest with the capitalist rulers’ candidates to become president of the United States, the highest office of the most powerful and last world imperialist power,” Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, told 24 people at the SWP campaign hall here April 6. Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for president, “presents the working-class alternative on all the big political issues today,” Kuniansky said. “M ..read more

The Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele Fruit for U.S. president is at the heart of an eight-week international drive by the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. to get out the word about the campaign and the party’s program, win 1,350 Militant readers, sell 1,350 books by SWP leaders and other revolutionaries and raise $165,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund. The Militant is the voice of the Fruit campaign. Fruit joined hundreds of hotel workers fighting for a better contract and their supporters at a UNITE HERE Local 11 picket line in front of the Hotel Figue ..read more

The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, one of the key political groups in Iran’s parliament, admitted April 3 that Tehran played a “strategic role … in planning and executing” the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, giving the lie to the regime’s previous denials. The announcement came after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi and 15 others, including additional Iranian commanders, Syrian forces and a representative of Hezbollah, were killed when Israeli missiles destroyed the building where they were meeting in Damascus April 1. Zahedi was the central organizer ..read more

The two-decades-long domination of Turkish politics by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shaken March 31 when his Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented defeat in nationwide municipal elections. For the first time the secular opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) gained the largest share of the vote countrywide and control of all of the five largest cities, including Istanbul. The vote reflected growing dissatisfaction among working people over the worsening economic crisis, as well as Erdogan’s tightening centralized control aimed at ..read more

BALTIMORE — The extent of the social disaster for working people here caused by the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a result of the bosses’ dog-eat-dog drive for profits at all costs — is becoming clearer. The catastrophe took the lives of six construction workers and seriously injured another. They were thrown into the Patapsco River while working the night shift repairing potholes on the bridge. It crumbled after being hit by the Dali, a massive cargo vessel carrying 4,679 loaded containers. “Yesterday I got a job, today no,” crane operator Malcolm Lynch told the Militant ..read more

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