Month: June 2025

Workers in a Missouri town fight to bring ‘Carol’ home

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

Dozens of neighbors and co-workers joined Carol Mayorga’s companion and three children to welcome her home to Kennett, Missouri, after her release from detention by immigration authorities June 4. The crowd was part of hundreds in this farming community of…

UN meeting backs right of Puerto Rican people to win independence

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
May Day march in San Juan, Puerto Rico. SWP statement to U.N. said, “Workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico face the same enemy — the capitalist ruling families and their governments.”

UNITED NATIONS — The ongoing roundups of Dominican-born and other workers in Puerto Rico by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement police are an example of “the direct intervention by the U.S. government in the daily lives of our society,” a…

Refuse workers vote to continue their hard-fought strike in the UK

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — The nearly 400 refuse workers employed by the Birmingham City Council, members of Unite the Union, voted overwhelmingly to maintain their strike action, the union reported June 5. Workers voted by 97% in favor on a 75%…

Back Ukraine fight for national sovereignty, defend the unions

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Drones, missiles hit Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, May 24. Moscow’s attacks consist of murderous bombing of civilians across the country. Despite assaults, Ukraine people resist courageously.

After seizing Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in Ukraine 11 years ago, and over three years since his full-scale invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to inflict as much pain as possible targeting Ukraine’s cities all…

Frame-ups, brutality: The norm for US cops under capitalism

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Cops fire on truck drivers’ picket during Teamsters Local 574 strike in Minneapolis in July 1934. Henry Ness and John Belor were killed in the ambush, 48 other pickets were wounded.

Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight Against the Korean War and McCarthyism by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Cannon, then Socialist Workers Party national secretary, was one of…

Join the Socialist Workers Party!

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

From the Middle East, where the reactionary rulers in Tehran still hope to carry out a new Holocaust in Israel, to Ukraine, where Moscow rains down death nightly on working people in the country’s cities, the absence of parties that…

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

July 3, 2000 Working people around the world need to loudly condemn the State of Texas moving to execute Gary Graham, who was railroaded to death row on a murder charge. Graham’s planned execution comes in the midst of heightened…

Striking cannery workers in rural Illinois win support

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Members of BCTGM Local 1, on picket line at Teasdale Latin Foods in Hoopeston, Illinois, have support of Teamsters, community in their fight for work schedule that allows family life.

HOOPESTON, Ill. — Since the beginning of June, some 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 at the Teasdale Latin Foods canning plant here have been on strike. Solidarity from fellow workers and unions in…