New protests erupt in Gaza against brutal rule of Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Thousands took to the streets of Beit Lahiya April 2 to demand Hamas get out of Gaza. Anger at Hamas for bringing destruction to Palestinians is growing.

Three days of protests by thousands of Palestinians in Gaza punctured the illusion promoted by Hamas and its apologists around the world that the Tehran-backed group defends the national interests of the people there. The just demands and courage of…


Join campaign to put the SWP on New Jersey ballot

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, with Joe Rutkoski, NALC Branch 38 president, at March 23 rally in Springfield, N.J., against threatened cuts in postal service.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Beginning April 5, Socialist Workers Party campaigners will be fanning out from here across the state to introduce the party, its program, candidates and activities widely to working people, and to put Joanne Kuniansky for governor…


Farmworkers protest against ICE arrest of union leader

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Over 400 protesters rallied to demand release of farmworkers’ union organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez at ICE’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, March 27.

SEATTLE — Early in the morning of March 25 Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a leader of the farmworkers union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Skagit County as he drove his…


‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Laura Garza, SWP candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, join march in defense of immigrants rights in Delano March 31.

SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched his campaign as he joined several thousand farmworkers and other unionists fighting to defend the rights of immigrants at the “With…


Cuba’s socialist revolution set example for toilers worldwide

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Literacy brigade volunteers in Havana, 1961. Mass literacy campaign closed gap between town and country, cemented worker-peasant alliance, advanced road to Cuba’s socialist revolution.

The French edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Sixty-four years ago, Cuban workers and peasants in the Revolutionary…


5,000 march in California to defend immigrant rights

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Over 5,000 workers march in Delano, California, March 31. They demanded rights for immigrant workers, protested recent deportations. Unionists brought solidarity from across state.

DELANO, Calif. — Over 5,000 workers marched here March 31, demanding rights for immigrant workers and protesting recent deportations and other attacks. Over 30 buses organized by the California Federation of Labor and other unions, as well as other organizations,…



25th anniversary of University for Older Adults celebrated in Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025
Over 200 students, graduates and volunteer teachers attend event at University of Havana Feb. 24 celebrating contributions of the University for Older Adults to Cuba’s socialist revolution.

HAVANA — The main auditorium at the University of Havana was packed with 200 enthusiastic students, graduates and volunteer teachers who came to celebrate 25 years since the founding of Cuba’s University Courses for Older Adults — “Cátedra del Adulto…


Toilers in Ukraine fight to defend their nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in Moscow’s war against Ukraine have become more protracted than he expected. The Ukrainian government has backed Trump’s ceasefire plan, but Moscow categorically rejects it. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is continuing…


Back BCTGM workers on strike at Knappen Milling in Michigan

Vol. 89/No. 14 - April 14, 2025

AUGUSTA, Mich. — Twenty workers at Knappen Milling, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G, went on strike here March 11. The workers, who make baking flour, are fighting for wages that keep up with sky-high…