Quebec bakery workers fight for wage increase, safety

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

BOUCHERVILLE, Quebec — Over 300 workers have been locked out at the Bridor industrial bakery plant here since April 25 for demanding a wage hike to keep up with the cost of living. Bridor locked out the members of the…


‘COVID clinics in socialist Cuba show what is possible’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Food delivery during peak of pandemic in May 2020. Health care workers and other Cubans are proud of role they played in combating pandemic and at Cuba’s 90% vaccination rate.

HAVANA — I had been here two days in late April as part of an international team of volunteers, helping set up the Pathfinder Books stand at the Havana International Book Fair, when I developed COVID-19 symptoms. Had I been…


Sri Lanka protesters stand firm against gov’t attacks

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

Public anger exploded in Sri Lanka May 9 after several hundred supporters of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, many armed with iron bars, attacked peaceful protesters camped out in Colombo, the country’s capital. Police did little to stop the attack that…


Cattle rancher describes crisis facing working farmers in Texas

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for governor, and Dennis Richter discuss challenges facing ranchers amid capitalist crisis with Nathaniel Turner, center, at his Fairfield ranch May 9.

FAIRFIELD, Texas — Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for governor of Texas, party member Dennis Richter and the author of this article met Nathaniel Turner on a recent campaign trip here. We were eating lunch in a local diner where he…


Join May 29 protests against US embargo of Cuba!

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

For the last two years, car caravans and protests calling for an end to the U.S. economic war on Cuba have taken place on the last Sunday of every month across the United States and around the world. For more…


Fidel Castro: ‘Maurice Bishop was a true revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro at 1980 May Day rally in Cuba. Castro said Grenada Revolution was ”a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean” worthy of support.

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…



Ukraine workers fight Moscow invasion, boss attacks at home

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Rail workers load up rail car May 3 in Lviv with food, medicine and other supplies for union members, fellow workers and Ukraine combatants, in areas hardest hit by Moscow’s invasion.

Workers and their unions in Ukraine are joining in the fight to defeat Moscow’s invasion of their country, while standing up to assaults on jobs, wages and working conditions by bosses who are backed by the government of President Volodymyr…


Putin’s charge Ukraine gov’t is ‘fascist’ is a lie

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims Moscow had to invade Ukraine to “denazify” the country. He propagates through his rigidly government-controlled media the charge that “neo-Nazis” and “far-right nationalists” took over Ukraine in 2014 in a “coup” backed by Washington and…


Rolls-Royce workers strike to raise wages

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022

MONTREAL — Some 530 strikers at the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine maintenance plant here rejected another company “final offer” by a vote of 94% at a well-attended union meeting May 11. The workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions…