Moscow’s troops out now! Defend Ukrainian sovereignty!

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Volunteers, emergency workers search for survivors amid wreckage in shopping mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, after June 27 Russian missile strike. Scores were killed or injured in attack. Kremlin claims Kyiv bombed itself to smear Russia.

In one of his most brazen acts of murder of innocent civilians in his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent cruise missiles that hit a busy shopping mall June 27 in Kremenchuk, far from the front lines of…


UMWA rallies build solidarity for 15-month strike in Alabama

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Alabama miners picket Warrior Met job fair to hire scabs in Pennington Gap, Virginia, June 24. Bosses refuse to honor promise to restore wages, benefits, conditions lost by UMWA members.

“This is an opportunity to send another message to Warrior Met,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said in a video posted for union members, urging workers to come to the weekly strike support meeting at the union…


Cuba’s women made ‘a revolution within the revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Women and the Cuban Revolution, which includes speeches and documents by Fidel Castro, Vilma Espín and others, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The excerpt below is from “The Revolution Within the Revolution,” a December 1966…


Quebec gov’t language law is blow to working people

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

MONTREAL — The National Assembly of Quebec adopted Law 96 on May 24, declaring French the province’s official common language and enforcing its use. Under the pretext of combating the “declining use of French,” the bill restricts the use of…



Expand use of nuclear power for world energy needs

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

For all their pious talk about the climate crisis and the need to end the use of fossil fuels, most capitalist rulers worldwide, as well as middle-class environmental groups, oppose much-needed steps to expand the use of nuclear power. This…


Ecuador protests demand lower prices, halt foreclosures

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

After two weeks of sizable daily protests by Indigenous groups, the government of Ecuador has given in to some of their demands and is negotiating with them on others. The protests by thousands of workers and peasants provoked by the…


Bakery workers at Form-A-Feed in Wisconsin strike for pay raise

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — Nine members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22, went on strike at Form-A-Feed here June 13. They are the only union members among the over 200 workers at the company’s two mills,…


Ukrainian resistance continues in occupied Kherson

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Kherson, a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, was the first major city to fall to Russian forces when they invaded Ukraine Feb. 24. It lies near the Crimean Peninsula, which was seized by Moscow in 2014. “In the first…


Back fight for Puerto Rico independence!

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

Statement by Sara Lobman for the Socialist Workers Party to the hearing of the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization of Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Sara Lobman. I am the Socialist Workers…