Defeat of FBI entrapment case is a victory for political rights

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

In a victory for political rights, prosecutors failed to convict any of four men who were entrapped and framed up by undercover FBI provocateurs, accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to try and stop her pandemic mask…



Five cops fired in Pittsburgh for 2021 Taser killing of Jim Rogers

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

PITTSBURGH — Over five months after Jim Rogers died after a city cop repeatedly stunned him with  a Taser Oct. 13, Pittsburgh Mayor Edward Gainey and Public Safety Director Lee Schmidt announced March 23 that five officers involved had been…



Court ruling for the Gibsons is a victory for working people

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Four generations of the Gibson family and their legal team celebrate June 13, 2019, after Lorain County jury decided in their favor against Oberlin College officials’ campaign of “racism” smears.

Ohio’s Ninth District Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a 2019 jury verdict and $31 million award won by the Gibson family, owners of a fifth-generation local bakery and store in Oberlin, against a yearslong race-baiting and defamatory assault by Oberlin…


A working-class road to oppose Putin’s war

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

Mounting condemnation of Moscow’s brutality at Bucha fill the pages of the capitalist press following the release of pictures and eyewitness accounts of the massacre carried out there by Russian armed forces. The brutality reflects the disdain of Vladimir Putin…


Defend independence of Ukraine! For defeat of Moscow’s invasion!

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Residents of Ivankiv, 50 miles northwest of Kyiv, celebrate ouster of Moscow’s occupation troops April 1. Fierce resistance by Ukrainian people forced Russian retreat. Despite brutal repression by Vladimir Putin regime, working people in Russia find ways to protest Ukraine war.

After over a month of stubborn resistance by Ukrainian forces and volunteers against Moscow’s invasion, two-thirds of Russian ground forces have withdrawn from around the capital, Kyiv, and from Chernobyl, Chernihiv, Sumy and numerous other smaller towns. Russian President Vladimir…


For Cuban working people, revolution was ‘the only way forward’

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Banner of revolutionary-minded youth movement of Orthodox Party leads march against coup by U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista in Havana in 1952. From these beginnings, Fidel Castro organized the July 26 Movement, which led working people to take power into their own hands.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April is the Spanish edition of  Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58, a Participant’s Account  by Armando Hart. One of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Hart was a central…


Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Alabama rally backs miners strike against Warrior Met

MCCALLA, Alabama — United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year against Warrior Met Coal were joined in a solidarity rally here April 6 by hundreds of unionists from across the South and Midwest. Over…


Sand and gravel truck haulers strike, win 20% rate increase

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Members of Ontario Aggregate Trucking Association picket entrance to quarry in Milton, Ontario, March 21, part of two-week strike which won workers a 20% wage raise.

MILTON, Ontario — Truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, won a 20% rate increase from trucking bosses after a two-week strike that closed quarries and shut down much…