Capitalist rulers attack Ukraine unions, seize offices

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

Ukraine’s capitalist rulers, with the urging of their imperialist backers in Washington, are using wartime conditions and claims they’re advancing “de-Sovietization” to attack the union movement and weaken its ability to fight to protect workers’ interests. This includes moves to…


Join SWP campaigning in the working class!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters invite you to join in taking the party’s revolutionary program to working people on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines, and at social protest actions. Since the Tehran-backed Hamas massacre of Jews…



State prisons plan use of nitrogen to carry out death penalty

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska would become the fourth state in the U.S. where prisoners subject to the death penalty would be suffocated to death by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen gas under a bill introduced here by State Sen.…


Iran steelworkers make gains with 9-day strike

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

  After nine days on strike in the city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province, 3,000 workers at the National Steel Industry Group of Iran returned to work Dec. 31. Workers blocked entrances to the plant after the company suspended 21…


Support Canadian sugar workers on strike 15 weeks

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The members of Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8 are now in their 15th week of a hard-fought battle against Lantic’s Rogers Sugar bosses, who are trying to force a concession contract down workers’…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

January 25, 1999 The Clinton administration is on the offensive to get Black farmers to quit their struggle against discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Capitalist newspapers across the country are carrying stories presenting the consent decree signed by…


End Washington’s economic war on Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The fight to end the brutal economic, trade and financial war against the Cuban people waged by the U.S. capitalist rulers and their government in Washington is deeply in the interests of workers and our unions. This punishing embargo is…


Sankara spoke for the exploited and oppressed of the world

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
“Without a fight no new order will be built,” Thomas Sankara told a mass rally on March 8, 1987. “We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitely destroy and replace it.”

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is the French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara. In August 1983 a popular revolutionary government arose from…


Opponents of Jew-hatred rally, outnumber pro-Hamas protest

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews here organized a counterprotest against the Issaquah Students League, a chapter of a group called the Revolutionary Student Union. It led a march and rally at…