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January from Pathfinder Press
Special Offer! All three $30
Available in
English, Spanish and French     


The Turn to Industry and
Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions   $20

Either book plus Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
and the Road to Workers Power
   $25

The turn to industry Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
Three books to be read as one...
...about building the only kind of party worthy of the name “revolutionary”
in the imperialist epoch.


  • A party that’s working class in program, composition, and action.
  • A party that recognizes, in word and deed, the most revolutionary fact of our time:

  • That working people—those the bosses and privileged layers who serve them fear as “deplorables,” “criminals,” or just plain “trash”—have the power to create a different world as we organize and act together to defend our own interests, not those of the class that grows rich off exploiting our labor. That as we advance along that revolutionary course, we’ll transform ourselves and awaken to our capacities—to our own worth.

    Three books about building such a party in the US and worldwide.



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    The turn to industry El viraje a la industria Le tournant vers l’industrie
    The Turn to Industry


    Forging a Proletarian Party

    By Jack Barnes

    New in French

    Special Price for individuals: $12
    The Turn to Industry Forging a Proletarian Party is about the working-class program, composition, and course of conduct of the only kind of party worthy of the name ‘revolutionary’ in the imperialist epoch.

    The only kind of party that can recognize the most revolutionary fact of this epoch—the worth of working people,and our power to change society when we organize and act against the capitalist class in all its economic, social, and political forms.

    This book is about building such a party in the United States and in other capitalist countries around the world.

    Malcolm X, Black Liberation,<br> and the Road to Workers Power
    Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
    and the Road to Workers Power


    By Jack Barnes

    Price: $20
    Also available in Spanish, French, Greek, Farsi, Arabic

    “Don’t start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling. It’s the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls you over.” —Jack Barnes

    Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings, author’s introduction, index, glossary.

    “… A powerful and persuasive political testimony, enhanced with black-and-white photographs, a glossary, and an index.” —Midwest Book Review




    Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Are They Rich Because They’re Smart?


    Class, Privilege, and Learning under Capitalism

    By Jack Barnes

    Now available in Spanish, French and Farsi

    Price: $10
    Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? explains the sharpening class inequalities in the United States and the resulting conflicts accelerated by today’s slow-burning world depression. It takes apart the self-serving rationalizations of a growing layer of well-paid professionals that their schooling and “brightness” equip them to “regulate” the lives of working people, who can’t be trusted to know what’s in our own interests.

    In the coming battles forced upon us by the capitalist rulers, says Jack Barnes, workers will begin to transform ourselves and our attitudes toward life, work, and each other. Only then will we discover our own worth and learn what we’re capable of becoming.
    The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class Record The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class Record


    Why Washington Fears Working People

    By Jack Barnes

    Also available in Spanish, French, Farsi and Greek


    Price: $10
    "It’s their system that’s deplorable, not us!"

    Laying bare the record of the Clintons’ White House and 2016 presidential campaign, Jack Barnes explains why more and more working people and unionists reject being targets of the US rulers’ economic and cultural crisis and brutal wars and are looking for ways to understand—and to resist—the profit-driven course of the capitalists, their government, and their political parties

    Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible? Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible?


    A necessary debate among working people

    By Mary-Alice Waters

    Also available in Spanish, French and Farsi


    Price: $7
    An unhesitating “Yes”—that’s the answer given here to the question, Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible?

    Possible—but not inevitable. That future depends on us.

    Fighting for a society only working people can create, it is our own capacities we will discover, not the rulers’ false image of us—an image that reflects their own guilt and fear.

    It is the poor who face the savagery of the US justice system "It’s the Poor Who Face the Savagery
    of the US ’Justice’ System"


    The Cuban Five talk about their lives within the US working class


    By Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González, Fernando González


    Also available in Spanish and Farsi

    Price: $10
    Five Cuban revolutionaries, framed up by the U.S. government in 1998, spent up to 16 years as part of the U.S. working class behind bars. Each reached out to fellow prisoners with respect, solidarity, and through their own example—and won respect and support in return.

    What prepared the Cuban Five to act as each did? Above all, it was Cuba’s socialist revolution, whose class character and values their conduct exemplifies. With understanding, objectivity and humor, in this 2015 interview they talk about U.S. capitalist society and its “justice” system. And about the future of the Cuban Revolution.

    Includes 40 photos from their years in prison and since the Cuban Five won their freedom and returned to Cuba.

    The Changing Face of U.S. Politics The Changing Face of U.S. Politics

    By Jack Barnes

    Price: $23
    Also available in French, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Farsi

    Building the kind of party working people need to prepare for coming class battles through which they will revolutionize themselves, their unions, and all society. A handbook for those seeking the road toward effective action to overturn the exploitative system of capitalism and join in reconstructing the world on new, socialist foundations.
    Thomas Sankara Speaks

    Thomas Sankara Speaks
    The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87


    By Thomas Sankara

    Price: $20
    Also available in French


    We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions


    We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions
    Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87


    By Thomas Sankara

    Price: $10
    Also available in French, Spanish, Farsi

    Under Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and solidarize with others engaged in that fight internationally.
    Women in Cuba:

    Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution
    Within the Revolution

    From Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army to the Birth of the Federation of Cuban Women


    By Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer

    Price: $17
    Also available in Spanish and Greek

    As working people in Cuba fought to bring down a bloody tyranny in the 1950s, the unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and leadership of the struggle was not an aberration. It was inseparably intertwined with the proletarian course of the leadership of the Cuban Revolution from the start.

    Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution is the story of that revolution and how it transformed the women and men who made it. The book was introduced at the 2012 Havana International Book Fair by a panel of speakers from Cuba and the US. Women and Revolution: The Living Example of the Cuban Revolution contains the presentations from that event.
    50 Years of Covert Operations in the US 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US

    Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class


    Socialism on Trial Socialism on Trial

    Testimony at Minneapolis Sedition Trial



    By Larry Seigle, Steve Clark, Farrell Dobbs

    Price: $10
    Also available in Spanish and Farsi

    The 15-year political campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to expose decades of spying and disruption by the FBI and other federal cop agencies targeting working class organizations and other opponents of government policies. Traces the origins of bipartisan efforts to expand presidential powers and build the “national security” state essential to maintaining capitalist rule. Includes “Imperialist War and the Working Class” by Farrell Dobbs.
    By James P. Cannon

    Price: $15
    Also available in Spanish, French and Farsi

    The revolutionary program of the working class, as presented during the 1941 trial of leaders of the Minneapolis labor movement and the Socialist Workers Party for “seditious conspiracy.” Includes Cannon’s answer to ultraleft critics of the defendants, drawing lessons from the working-class movement from Marx and Engels to the October Revolution and beyond.

    Pombo: A Man of Che's guerrilla Pombo: A Man of Che's guerrilla

    With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966–68


    By Harry Villegas

    Price: $20



    A firsthand account of the 1966–68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. This is the story of Pombo—the nom de guerre of Harry Villegas, a young fighter still in his 20s, who was a member of Guevara’s general staff. Villegas led the small group of combatants who survived the Bolivian army’s encirclement and lived to recount this epic chapter in the history of the Americas.


    Aldabonazo Aldabonazo

    Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952–58, a participant’s account


    By Armando Hart

    Price: $20
    Also available in Spanish


    In this firsthand account by a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, we meet men and women who led the urban underground in the fight against the brutal U.S.-backed tyranny in the 1950s. Together with their comrades-in-arms in the Rebel Army, they not only overthrew the dictatorship. Their revolutionary actions and example worldwide changed the history of the 20th century—and the century to come.

    Cuba and the Coming American Revolution
    Cuba and the Coming American Revolution

    By Jack Barnes

    Price: $10
    Also available in Spanish, French and Farsi

    The Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a worldwide political impact, including on workers and youth in the imperialist heartland. As the proletarian-based struggle for Black rights was advancing in the U.S., the social transformation fought for and won by Cuban toilers set an example that socialist revolution is not only necessary—it can be made and defended.



    New International no. 4 New International no. 4

    The Fight for a Workers and Farmers
    Government in the United States


    By Jack Barnes,

    Price: $15




    • The Fight for a Workers and Farmers Government in the United States by Jack Barnes
    • The Crisis Facing Working Farmers by Doug Jenness
    • Land Reform and Farm Cooperatives in Cuba, two speeches by Fidel Castro

    • The shared exploitation of workers and working farmers by banking, industrial, and commercial capital lays the basis for their alliance in a revolutionary fight for a government of the producers.



    Pathfinder 2020-21 English Brochure Pathfinder 2020-21 Spanish Brochure New Pathfinder brochure in English and Spanish

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    The Jewish Question La cuestíon judía NEW EDITIONS IN ENGLISH and SPANISH!
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    The Jewish Question

    A Marxist Interpretation

    By Abram Leon

    Price: $17

    At the opening of the 21st century, incidents of violent assault on Jews and anti-Semitism have begun spreading, fueled by today’s capitalist crises. Across history—from antiquity to feudalism, to capitalism’s rise and death throes of the past century—Jews have been targets of persecution.

    Why is Jew-hatred still raising its ugly head? What are its class roots? Why is there no solution to the Jewish question without revolutionary struggles that transform working people as we fight to transform our world?

    2020 edition includes new introduction by Dave Prince, 32 pages of photos and illustrations, 7 pages of maps, a glossary, expanded index and revised translation.


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    Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions Los tribunos del pueblo y los sindicatos
    Red Zone


    Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa

    By Enrique Ubieta

    Price: $17

    “Just as the Cuban combatants in Angola set an example that can never be erased, the heroic actions of Cuba’s army of white coats will occupy a place of honor.” —FIDEL CASTRO, OCTOBER 2014

    In 2014 three West African countries were hit by the largest epidemic on record of the deadly Ebola virus. In response to an international call for help, Cuba’s revolutionary socialist government provided what was needed most—and what no other country even tried to deliver. In a matter of weeks, more than 250 volunteer Cuban doctors, nurses, technicians, and public health specialists were on the ground providing hands-on care to thousands of desperately ill human beings and their traumatized families and communities.




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    Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions Los tribunos del pueblo y los sindicatos Tribuns du people et syndicats
    Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions

    By Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Farrell Dobbs, and Jack Barnes

    Price: $12

    “A tribune of the people reacts to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears.”

    The authors of this book draw on generations of revolutionary struggles by working people to explain why organizing to strengthen the unions is not only essential to the fighting unity and political striking power of the working class. It’s central to building a revolutionary proletarian party as well.

    But the activity of a workers party neither begins nor ends there. It begins by extending the party’s political reach in all directions, to cities, towns, and farms. By exchanging views and experiences with all layers of workers, farmers, and other toilers— irrespective of skin color, language, religion or sex. By broadening cultural horizons and knowledge of history and the world.

    A tribune of the people uses every manifestation of capitalist oppression to explain why it’s workers and our allies who can and will—in the course of struggles by the unions and beyond— lay the foundations for a world based not on violence and competition, but on solidarity among working people worldwide.




    NOW IN FRENCH!     

    Our History Is Still Being Written Nuestra historia aún se está escribiendo Notre histoire s'écrit toujours
    Our History Is Still Being Written

    The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution

    By Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, Moisés Sío Wong, Mary‑Alice Waters

    Also available in
    Spanish, French, Chinese and Farsi

    Price: $15

    "What was the principal measure to uproot discrimination against Chinese and blacks? Cuba’s socialist revolution itself."



    In Defense of the US Working Class En defensa de la clase trabajadora noretamericana En défense de la classe ouvrière américaine


    In Defense of the US Working Class

    By Mary-Alice Waters

    Special price: $5
    Also available in Greek

    “Without understanding the devastation of the lives of working-class families in regions like West Virginia, and the vast increase in class inequality since the 2008 crisis, you can’t understand what’s happening in the United States.”

    Now with more than 130 photos and illustrations!

    Teamster Bureaucracy Burocracía Teamster

    Price: $16 each


    How the class-struggle Teamsters leadership in the Upper Midwest organized to fight union busting, racism, and colonial oppression, as they opposed the mobilization of labor behind U.S. imperialist war aims in World War II. How Washington—backed by top AFL, CIO, and Teamsters officials—acted to gag class-conscious workers.

    The last of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that transformed the Teamsters union in Minnesota and much of the Midwest into a fighting industrial union movement. Written by a leader of the communist movement in the U.S. and organizer of the Teamsters union during the rise of the CIO. Indispensable tools for advancing revolutionary politics, organization, and effective trade unionism.


    Teamster Politics Politica Teamster

    Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the labor battles and debates recorded here, tells how in the 1930s the leadership of Teamsters Local 544 in Minneapolis fought to lead workers across the Midwest onto an independent working-class political course.

    • How they organized the unemployed and truck owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries.
    • Deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop the fascist Silver Shirts.
    • Campaigned for workers to break politically from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the unions.
    • And mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism’s entry into World War II.



    The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning
    The Fraud of Education Reform under Capitalism


    By Jack Barnes

    Price: $3
    Also available in Spanish, French, Icelandic, Swedish, Farsi and Greek

    “Until society is reorganized so that education is a human activity from the time we are very young until the time we die, there will be no education worthy of working, creating humanity.”



    Cuba and Angola
the War for Freedom Cuba and Angola
    The War for Freedom


    By Harry Villegas “Pombo”

    Also available in
    Spanish


    Price: $10
    “When we face new and unexpected challenges we will always be able to recall the epic of Angola with gratitude, because without Angola we would not be as strong as we are today.” —Raúl Castro May 1991

    Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism.

    Angola’s government appealed for help. The response of Cuba’s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, with the crushing defeat of South Africa’s army by Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants.

    This is the story of Cuba’s unparalleled contribution to the fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in the doing, Cuba’s socialist revolution also was strengthened.


    Companion volume to...

    Cuba and Angola
    Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own


    By Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Nelson Mandela, and others

    Also available in Spanish

    Price: $12


    How Far We Slaves Have Come!
    South Africa and Cuba in Today’s World

    By Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro

    Also available in Spanish and Farsi

    Price: $7


    In Defense of Socialism
    Four speeches on the 30th anniversary of the Cuban revolution


    By Fidel Castro

    Also available in Greek

    Price: $12


    Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa

    Reports from Equatorial Guinea


    By Mary-Alice Waters, Martín Koppel

    Price: $10
    Also available in Spanish and Farsi


    Reporting from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend. Pulled into the world market as never before, both a capitalist class and a working class are being born.
    .
    Includes firsthand accounts of the work of Cuban medical brigades in Equatorial Guinea, now extending to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea-Conakry as hundreds of Cuban volunteer medics combat the Ebola epidemic. Here we see the living example of the Cuban Revolution, exemplified by the international solidarity of workers and farmers who took political power into their own hands five decades ago.
    .
    Woven together, these seemingly disparate threads—the beginning transformation of production and class relations in Equatorial Guinea, and the proletarian course of the Cuban Revolution—show a future to be fought for today.

    New and Noteworthy
    Capitalism’s World Disorder Capitalism’s World Disorder
    Working-Class Politics at the Millennium


    By Jack Barnes

    Is Biology Woman’s Destiny? Now in Arabic!
    Is Biology Woman’s Destiny?

    By Evelyn Reed

    Price: $20
    Also available in Spanish and French

    The social devastation and financial panic, coarsening of politics, cop brutality, and imperialist aggression—all are products not of something gone wrong with capitalism but of its lawful workings. Yet the future can be changed by the united struggle of workers and farmers increasingly conscious of their capacity to wage revolutionary struggles for state power and to transform the world.
    Price: $5
    Also available in English and Farsi

    The roots of women’s oppression as a “second sex.”
    La victoria estratégica Por todos los caminos de la Sierra
    La victoria estratégica

    Along every road in the Sierra
    STRATEGIC VICTORY

    By Fidel Castro
    Price: $35 Spanish

    De la Sierra Maestra a Santiago de Cuba
    La contraofensiva estratégica

    From the Sierra Maestra to Santiago de Cuba
    STRATEGIC COUNTEROFFENSIVE

    By Fidel Castro
    Price: $25 Spanish

    Fidel Castro’s day-by-day account of the final months of the revolutionary war in Cuba to bring down the US-backed Batista dictatorship. Tells how worker and peasant combatants defeated the “final offensive” by an army more than 30 times their size, launched a 147-day counteroffensive to extend the revolutionary struggle to the rest of the country, and took power January 1, 1959. Includes communiqués, letters, maps, and photos. Two volumes.


    Published by Cuba’s Council of State. Distributed by Pathfinder.

    Get both books for $50. Click here for details.
    NEW!
    3 Study Guides on Lenin's Writings

    Price: $10


    3 Study Guides on Lenin’s Writings, originally published as separate pamphlets, are presented here in a single collection.


    These study guides were prepared for weekly classes organized in the 1980s by branches of the Socialist Workers Party.

    3 Study Guides on Lenin's Writings

     Newly reissued:

    What Is American Fascism?

    By James P. Cannon, Joseph Hansen
    Price: $5

    Analyzing examples in the 20th century—Father Charles Coughlin, Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy—this collection looks at the features distinguishing fascist movements and demagogues in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s.



    For more information on Pathfinder's Education for Socialists series Click here ...
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