Communist International defended rights of oppressed peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Lenin speaks at Second Congress of Communist International, July 1920, in Petrograd, Russia. Combating persecution of Jews, said Lenin, is vital to advance socialist revolution as only road to ensure rights of all oppressed nations. Under his leadership, Bolshevik Party was on the front lines of the fight to end pogroms.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February is Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920, Vol. 1. The 1917 revolution led by V.I. Lenin and…


Get Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

Two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine to crush its independence and subjugate its people. Eight years earlier workers across Ukraine rose up in massive protests for political rights that ousted the pro-Moscow regime of…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

March 1, 1999 DERRY, Northern Ireland — “The British government has got away with murder for too long — let’s see if they can handle the truth as well as they can handle the lies,” said Kay Duddy. Her brother,…


Calif. rally demands, ‘Reinstate fired health care workers’

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Rally at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, California, Feb. 10 demands nine fired health care workers be reinstated. Hospital officials fired them for fighting for better staffing levels.

LYNWOOD, Calif. — Holding placards and wearing shirts demanding the reinstatement of nine fired workers, a spirited rally of 200 people was held across the street from St. Francis Medical Center here Feb. 10. Scott Byington, who has worked as…


Montreal school bus drivers strike for a pay raise

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

“The company wants us to go back to work and submit everything to arbitration. But arbitration won’t give us what we deserve. You have to fight to get what you need, which for us is a 37% wage increase over…


Protest against Jew-hatred! No to Putin’s war in Ukraine!

Support Ukraine battle for its independence
Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
People sign for anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin in Moscow Jan. 23. Putin, alarmed as 200,000 people were seen lining up to sign petitions, barred him from ballot.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate the lives of working people there, to fuel anti-war opposition to the regime of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, and to roil world politics as it enters its third year. Workers in Ukraine…


Blows to Hamas advance fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Hamas built tunnels, command posts under hospitals, schools, mosques, homes to maximize civilian casualties. Left, diagram of tunnel underneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Right, Palestinians leaving Rafah after Israel let them know plans for military offensive.

Israeli officials are preparing an offensive to eliminate Hamas’ last remaining stronghold — Rafah, near the Egyptian/Gaza border — after dealing major blows to the Tehran-backed group’s command structure and underground bases in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Demonstrating that…


Supreme Court questions moves to throw Trump off the ballot

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments Feb. 8 on former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado high court ruling throwing him off the Republican primary ballot there. A clear majority of the justices voiced strong doubts about the…


Rail unions push for steps needed to prevent more East Palestines

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — For rail workers, “East Palestine was no surprise,” Jared Cassity, director of safety for the SMART-TD rail workers union, told a video conference of rail union officers two days before the Feb. 3 one-year anniversary of…