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December from Pathfinder Press
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The turn to industry
The Turn to Industry


Forging a Proletarian Party

By Jack Barnes

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.



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.

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

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.

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.

New in English and Spanish     ORDER NOW!

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




New in English and Spanish
Now available in French!     ORDER NOW!

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

“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 available in French!     Special price $12     ORDER NOW!

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."


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

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 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.

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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 ...
What Is American Fascism?
 

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