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The publisher of the American Trotskyist movement. It began in New York in 1930 as Pioneer Publishers, affiliated with the Communist League of America (a predecessor of the Socialist Workers Party), became Merit Publishers in 1965 and Pathfinder Press in 1969. It publishes the writings of Leon Trotsky, James P. Cannon, Malcolm X, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and the leaders of the SWP, and remains active.

Years
1930–present
Location
New York, United States
Name history
  1. 1930–1965 Pioneer Publishers
  2. 1965–1969 Merit Publishers
  3. 1969–present Pathfinder Press
Also known as
Pioneer Publishers · Merit Publishers
Affiliation
Publishing arm of the Socialist Workers Party
Languages
English, Spanish, French, and others
Website
https://www.pathfinderpress.com/
Sources
Online Archive of California — Pathfinder Press records, 1848–2014

Backlist

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Titles of Pathfinder Press by year: 921 dated titles, 1930–2025, most in 1970 (70); 3 undated. Lines mark founded 1930.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1930s44
1940s49
1950s27
1960s114
1970s367
1980s115
1990s89
2000s73
2010s37
2020s6
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1930Let the People Vote on War!✓James BurnhamEnglish
1931The Permanent Revolution✓Free — Translated by Max ShachtmanLeon TrotskyEnglish
1931The Spanish Revolution in Danger!✓Leon TrotskyEnglish
1932Germany✓Free — The Key to the International SituationLeon TrotskyEnglish
1932Problems of the Chinese Revolution✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1932Shall Fascism Really Be Victorious?✓ — Germany, the Key to the International SituationLeon TrotskyEnglish
1932What Next?✓Free — Vital Questions for the German ProletariatLeon TrotskyEnglish
1933America's role in Germany✓Hugo OehlerNot recorded
1933Ten Years✓Free — History and Principles of the Left Opposition
Printed for the Communist League of America
Max ShachtmanEnglish
1933The Only Road✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1934The Soviet Union and the Fourth International✓ — The Class Nature of the Soviet StateLeon TrotskyEnglish
1934War and the 4th International — Draft Theses Adopted by the International Secretariat of the International Communist LeagueCommunist League of America (opposition)English
1935[Pamphlets]✓FreeSocialist Workers PartyEnglish
1935Declaration of Principles and Constitution of the Workers Party of the U.S.✓Workers Party of the United StatesEnglish
1935The Kirov Assassination✓Free — [Translated by J.G. Wright]Leon TrotskyEnglish
1935The Suppressed Testament of Lenin✓Free — The Complete Original Text, with Two Explanatory ArticlesVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936American Labor Struggles 1877-1934✓Samuel YellenEnglish
1936Behind the Moscow Trial✓Free — [The Greatest Frame-up in History]Max ShachtmanEnglish
1936The Civil War in Spain✓FreeFelix MorrowEnglish
1936The Selected Works of Leon Trotsky✓Lev Davidovič Trockij & Max ShachtmanEnglish
1936The Third International After Lenin✓Free
The Selected Works...v.1
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1936Whither France?✓FreeLev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1936World Voices on the Moscow Trials✓ — A Compilation from the Labor and Liberal Press of the WorldAmerican Committee for the Defense of Leon TrotskyEnglish
1937From Lenin to Stalin✓ — Translated from the French by Ralph ManheimVictor SergeEnglish
1937I Stake My Life✓Free — Trotsky's Address to the N.Y. Hippodrome MeetingLeon TrotskyEnglish
1937In Defense of the Soviet Union✓Leon Trotsky & Max ShachtmanEnglish
1937Lessons of October✓Free
The Marxist Pocket Library
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1937Russia Twenty Years After✓Victor SergeEnglish
1937Stalinism and Bolshevism✓Free — Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth International ...Leon TrotskyEnglish
1937The People's Front✓Free — The New BetrayalJames BurnhamEnglish
1937The Peoples' Front✓ — The New BetrayalJames BurnhamEnglish
1937The Stalin School of Falsification✓Free
The Selected Works of Leon Trotsky; 2
Leon Trotsky & Max ShachtmanEnglish
1937The Witchcraft Trial in Moscow✓FreeFriedrich AdlerEnglish
1937Truth About the Moscow Trials✓—English
1937Why Did They "Confess"?✓ — A Study of the Radek-Piatakov TrialJames BurnhamEnglish
1937World Revolution, 1917-1936✓ — The Rise and Fall of the Communist InternationalCyril Lionel Robert James, Leon Trotsky & Joseph StalinEnglish
1938Fascism and the American Scene✓FreeDwight MacdonaldEnglish
1938Revolution & Counter-revolution in Spain✓FreeFelix MorrowEnglish
1938Revolution and Counter-revolution in Spain✓FreeFelix MorrowEnglish
1938What Is Socialism?✓ — Three Lectures for WorkersAlbert GoldmanEnglish
1939Fascism & Big Business✓Daniel GuérinEnglish
1939Fascism and Big Business✓FreeDaniel GuérinEnglish
1939Fascism and Big Business Holy Germany✓Daniel GuérinEnglish
1939Why Negroes Should Oppose the War✓FreeJ. R. JohnsonEnglish
1940Labor's Answer to Conscription✓Felix Morrow & Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1940Léon Trotsky✓ — Memorial Address "to the Memory of the Old Man"James P. CannonEnglish
1940Teachers and the War✓Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1940The Assassination of Leon Trotsky✓ — The Proofs of Stalin's GuiltAlbert GoldmanEnglish
1940Why We Defend the Soviet Union✓Albert GoldmanEnglish
1941The Assassination of Leon Trotsky✓ — The Proofs of Stalin’s GuiltAlbert GoldmanEnglish
1941Trade Union Problems✓Farrell DobbsEnglish
1942Defense Policy in the Minneapolis Trial✓ — 1: A Criticism by Grandizo Munis: 2: An Answer by James P. Cannon
International Bulletin -- Vol. II, No. 2, June, 1942
G. MunisEnglish
1942In Defense of Marxism✓ — Against the Petty Bourgeois OppositionJoseph HansenEnglish
1942In Defense of Socialism✓ — The Official Court Record of Attorney Albert Goldman's Final Speech for the Defense in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialAlbert GoldmanEnglish
1942Manifesto of the Fourth International to the Workers and Peasants of India✓FreeFourth InternationalEnglish
1942Socialism on Trial✓Free — The Official Court Record of James P. Cannon's Testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1942The March on Washington, One Year After✓Albert ParkerEnglish
1942The Truth About the Minneapolis Trial of the 28✓ — Speech for the DefenseAlbert Goldman, Socialist Workers Party & Civil Rights Defense Committee (New York, N.Y.)English
1942Their Morals and Ours✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1943Maritime✓ — A Historical Sketch and a Workers' ProgramFrederick J. LangEnglish
1943Negroes in the Post-war World✓Albert ParkerEnglish
1943The End of the Comintern✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1943The End of the Comintern, by James P. Cannon, with the Manifesto of the 4th International✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1943The Struggle for a Proletarian Party✓FreeJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1943Your Standard of Living✓ — What's Happening to It?C. CharlesEnglish
1944American Workers Need a Labor Party✓Joseph HansenEnglish
1944Fascism✓ — What It Is, How to Fight It: A CompilationLeon TrotskyEnglish
1944In Defense of Socialism✓ — The Official Court Record of Albert Goldmans Final Speech for the Defense in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialAlbert GoldmanEnglish
1944Negroes in the Post-war World✓Albert ParkerEnglish
1944Socialism on Trial✓ — The Official Record of James P. Cannon's Testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialJames Patrick Cannon & United States. District Court (Minnesota)English
1944The History of American Trotskyism✓ — Report of a ParticipantJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1944The Russian Revolution✓James P. CannonEnglish
1944Why We Are in Prison✓ — Farewell Speeches of the 18 SWP and 544-C10 Minneapolis PrisonersSocialist Workers PartyEnglish
1945A Practical Program to Kill Jim Crow✓
Socialist Workers Party
Charles JacksonEnglish
1945Maritime✓Free — A Historical Sketch and a Workers' ProgramFrederick J. LangEnglish
1945The First Five Years of the Communist International✓Free — In Two VolumesLeon TrotskyEnglish
1945The Revolution Betrayed✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1946A Program of Action✓ — Veterans and LaborCharles CarstenEnglish
1946Build a Labor Party Now✓FreeGeorge ClarkeEnglish
1946Build a Labor Party Now, by George Clarke✓FreeGeorge ClarkeEnglish
1946On Lenin's Testament✓ — [With] the Suppressed Testament of Lenin
Pioneer Pocket Library, No. 2
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1946Only Victorious Socialist Revolutions Can Prevent the Third World War!✓ — Manifesto of the Fourth International to the Workers, the Exploited and the Oppressed Colonial Peoples of the Entire WorldFourth International. ConferenceEnglish
1946The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International✓ — The Transitional Program Adopted by the Founding Conference of the Fourth International
Pioneer Pocket Library
Fourth International. Founding Conference, 1938English
1946The Suppressed Testament of Lenin✓Free
Pioneer Pocket Library; No. 2
Lev Davidovič Trockij & Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1946The Suppressed Testament of Lenin, with on Lenin's Testament
Pioneer Pocket Library, No. 2
Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin & Lev Davidovich TrotskiĭEnglish
1946The Suppressed Testament of Lenin, with, on Lenin's Testament by Leon Trotsky✓
Pioneer Pocket Library
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1946Veterans and Labor✓FreeCharles CarstenEnglish
1946Veterans and Labor, by Charles Carsten✓FreeCharles CarstenEnglish
1947American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism✓FreeJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1948A Letter to American Negroes✓William E. Bohannan & Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1948The Socialist Workers Party: What It Is - What It Stands ForJoseph HansenEnglish
1948The Voice of Socialism✓ — Radio Speeches by the Socialist Workers Party Candidates in the 1948 ElectionSocialist Workers PartyEnglish
1949Socialism on Trial✓ — The Official Court Record of James P. Cannon's Testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1950Stalin's Frame-up System and the Moscow Trials✓ — Foreword by Joseph HansenLeon TrotskyEnglish
1950Stalin's Frame-up System and the Moscow Trials, by Leon Trotsky. Foreword by Joseph Hansen✓Leon TrotskyEnglish
1951The Road to Peace According to Stalin and According to Lenin✓FreeJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1952Jim Crow Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Moore✓ — New Dangers and New Tasks Facing the Negro StruggleGeorge BreitmanEnglish
1953America's Road to Socialism✓James P. CannonEnglish
1953An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism✓Free — Eight LecturesGeorge Edward NovackEnglish
1953The First Five Years of the Communist International✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1954What Is Economics?✓Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1955Desegregation!✓ — Labor's Stake in the Fight for Negro EqualityJean SimonEnglish
1956Leon Trotsky on the Kirov Assassination✓Free
Pioneer Pocket Book, 3
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1956The Debs Centennial✓ — Written on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Eugene v. Debs
Pioneer Pocket Library -- No. 5
James Patrick CannonEnglish
1956The I.W.W. (on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding Convention)✓
Pioneer Pocket Library; No. 4
James Patrick Cannon, N. Y.) Pioneer Publishers (New York & Fredric Wertham Collection (Library of Congress)English
1956The Kirov Assassination✓Free
Pioneer Pocket Library, 3
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1957A List of Publications on Socialism and the Labor Movement✓ — Winter 1957-58N. Y.) Pioneer Publishers (New YorkEnglish
1957If America Should Go Communist✓Free
Pioneer Pocket Library -- No. 7
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1957Regroupment✓ — A Programmatic Basis for Discussion of Socialist UnitySocialist Workers PartyEnglish
1957Revolution in Hungary and the Crisis of Stalinism✓Socialist Workers Party. National CommitteeEnglish
1957The Chinese Communist Party and the Hungarian Revolution✓
Pioneer Pocket Library -- No. 6
Michael BandaEnglish
1957The Chinese Revolution✓Free — Problems and Perspectives
Bulletin of Marxist Studies -- No. 1
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1957The Class-Struggle Road to Negro Equality✓Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1957The Revolution Betrayed✓Free — What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?Leon TrotskyEnglish
1957The Santana Case✓ — Tragedy of a Puerto Rican YouthJoyce CowleyEnglish
1957The Third International After Lenin✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1958Notebook of an Agitator✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1958The Soviet Union, What It Is and Where It Is Going✓ — A Guide to the Study of Leon Trotsky's "the Revolution Betrayed"
Bulletin of Marxist Studies -- No. 2
Theodore EdwardsEnglish
1958The Soviet Union. What It Is and Where It Is Going. A Guide to the Study of Leon Trotsky's "the Revolution Betrayed". Nine Lectures ...Theodore EdwardsEnglish
1959Which Way for Labor✓ — Democratic Party or Labor Party
Bulletin of Marxist Studies -- No. 3
Murry WeissEnglish
1960Stalinism and Bolshevism✓Free — Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth InternationalLeon TrotskyEnglish
1960The Long View of History✓Free
Pioneer Pocket Library
George Edward NovackEnglish
1960The Truth About Cuba✓FreeJoseph HansenEnglish
1960Too Many Babies?✓Joseph Hansen & Bill BairdEnglish
1961A List of Publications on Socialism and the Labor Movement, 1961✓N. Y.). Pioneer Publishers (New York & N. Y.) Pioneer Publishers (New YorkEnglish
1961Documents on the Negro Struggle✓ — Including the Texts of Discussions with Leon Trotsky, 1933 and 1939, and Socialist Workers Party, 1939 and 1948
Bulletin of Marxist Studies -- No. 4
Leon Trotsky & Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1961How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination✓Harry RingEnglish
1961In Defense of the Cuban Revolution✓Free — An Answer to the State Department and Theodore DraperJoseph HansenEnglish
1961Too Many Babies?✓ — A Marxist Answer to Some Frightening QuestionsJoseph HansenEnglish
1961Why Can't Everybody Have a Job?✓Fred Halstead & Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1962A List of Publications on Socialism and the Labor Movement, 1962-63✓N. Y.). Pioneer Publishers (New York & N. Y.) Pioneer Publishers (New YorkEnglish
1962Fidel Castro Denounces Bureaucracy and Sectarianism✓Free — Speech of March 26, 1962Fidel CastroEnglish
1962Guevara's Guerrilla Strategy✓ — A Critique and Some ProposalsPedro CamejoEnglish
1962The Second Declaration of Havana✓ — Cuba's Answer to the OASFidel CastroEnglish
1962The Second Declaration of Havana with the First Declaration of Havana✓—English
1962The Stalin School of Falsification✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1962The Theory of the Cuban Revolution✓FreeJoseph HansenEnglish
1963An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism✓FreeGeorge NovackEnglish
1963The Road to Revolution in Latin America✓ — Speech Delivered in Havana July 26, 1963, Celebrating Tenth Anniversary of Attack on Moncada BarracksFidel CastroEnglish
1964Labor's Giant Step✓ — Twenty Years of the CIOArt PreisEnglish
1964The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International✓ — "The Transitional Program" Adopted by the Founding Conference of the Fourth InternationalLev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1965In Defense of Marxism✓Free — (Against the Petty-Bourgeois Opposition)Leon TrotskyEnglish
1965Malcolm X✓ — The Man and His IdeasGeorge BreitmanEnglish
1965Malcolm X Speaks✓ — Selected Speeches and StatementsMalcolm X.English
1965Marxism and the Negro Struggle✓ — ArticlesHarold Cruse, George Breitman & Clifton De BerryEnglish
1965Socialism on Trial✓ — The Official Court Record of James P. Cannon's Testimony in the Famous Minneapolis "Sedition" TrialJames Patrick CannonEnglish, Arabic
1965The Origins of Materialism✓George NovackEnglish
1965The Permanent Revolution✓Free — And Results and ProspectsLeon TrotskyEnglish
1965The Revolution Betrayed✓Free — What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyEnglish
1965The Revolution Must Be a School of Unfettered Thought✓ — Text of Speech... at the University of Havana March 13, 1962Fidel CastroEnglish
1965Two Speeches✓
The Black Struggle
Malcolm X.English
1965Two Speeches by Malcolm X.✓Malcolm X.English
1965Uneven and Combined Development in History✓George NovackEnglish
1966An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism✓FreeGeorge Edward NovackEnglish
1966Marxist Essays in American History✓George NovackEnglish
1966The Black Panther Party. Speech by John Hulett. Interview with Stokely Carmichael. Report from Lowndes County✓—English
1966The Catastrophe in Indonesia. Three Articles on the Fatal Consequences of Communist Party Policy✓—English
1966Their Morals and Ours✓Free — Marxist Versus Liberal Views on MoralityLeon Trotsky, John Dewey & George Edward NovackEnglish
1966Uneven and Combined Development in History✓George Edward NovackEnglish
1967An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory✓FreeErnest MandelEnglish
1967Behind China's Great Cultural Revolution✓
A Merit Pamphlet
Shuzhi Peng, Pierre Frank, Joseph Hansen & George Lavan WeissmanEnglish
1967Che Guevara Speaks✓ — Selected Speeches and WritingsChe GuevaraEnglish
1967Che Guevaraspeaks✓ — Selected Speeches and WritingsChe GuevaraEnglish
1967E. v. Debs✓ — The Socialist Movement of His Time: Its Meaning for TodayJames Patrick CannonEnglish
1967Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Self-Determination✓George BreitmanEnglish
Second Printing December, 1967Malcolm X on Afro-American History✓Malcolm X.English
1967On Black Nationalism and Self-Determination✓Leon TrotskyEnglish
1967On Socialist Man✓Isaac DeutscherEnglish
1967On Vietnam and World Revolution✓Che GuevaraEnglish
1967On Vietnam and World Revolution Che Guevara✓Ernesto GuevaraEnglish
1967The I.W.W.✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1967The Last Year of Malcolm X✓ — The Evolution of a RevolutionaryGeorge BreitmanEnglish
1967The Understanding of History✓ — Two EssaysGeorge NovackEnglish
1968An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism✓FreeGeorge NovackEnglish
1968Black Nationalism and Socialism✓George Breitman & George NovackEnglish
1968Empiricism and Its Evolution✓ — A Marxist ViewGeorge Edward NovackEnglish
1968Fifty Years of World Revolution, 1917-1967✓ — An International SymposiumErnest MandelEnglish
1968How a Minority Can Change Society✓ — The Real Potential of the Afro-American StruggleGeorge BreitmanEnglish
1968Letters from Prison✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1968Letters from Prison, by James P. Cannon✓James Patrick CannonEnglish
1968Myths About Malcolm X✓ — Two ViewsAlbert B. CleageEnglish
1968On Black Separatism✓Robert S. BrowneEnglish
1968Revolutionary Marxist Students in Poland Speak Out, 1964-1968✓Isaac DeutscherEnglish
1968Should the U. S. Be Partitioned into Two Separate and Independent Nations -- One a Homeland for White Americans and the Other a Homeland for Black Americans?✓Robert S. Browne & Robert VernonEnglish
1968The Case of Leon Trotsky✓ — Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials.: By the Preliminary Commission of Inquiry, John Dewey, Chairman [and Others] Introd. By George NovackCommission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials. Preliminary Commission, 1937, Coyoacán, MexicoEnglish
1968The Worker-Student Uprising of 1968✓ — First Phase of the French Socialist RevolutionPierre FrankEnglish
1968Those Who Are Not Revolutionary Fighters Cannot Be Called Communists✓ — March 13, 1967, SpeechFidel CastroEnglish
1968Whither France?✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1969A Political Biography of Walter Reuther✓ — The Record of an OpportunistBeatrice HansenEnglish
1969An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory✓FreeErnest MandelEnglish
1969An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism✓FreeGeorge Edward NovackEnglish
1969Antiwar GIs Speak Out✓ — Interviews with Ft. Jackson GIs United Against the War
Merit Pamplet
Fred HalsteadEnglish
1969Burning Issues of the Mideast Crisis✓Peter BuchEnglish
1969Fascism✓Free — What It Is and How to Fight ItLev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1969Fifty Years of World Revolution, 1917-1967✓ — An International Symposium. [Translations by Gerald Paul]Ernest MandelEnglish
1969How to Make a Revolution in the U.S.✓ — A SpeechPedro CamejoEnglish
1969Israel and the Arabs✓ — Militant Readers Debate the Mideast Conflict—English
1969Key Problems of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism✓ — 3 Articles
A Merit Pamphlet
Pierre FrankEnglish
1969Leon Trotsky on the Labor Party in the United States✓Leon TrotskyEnglish
1969Leon Trotsky on the Trade Unions✓Leon TrotskyEnglish