Communist League campaigns at Miners’ Gala in UK

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

DURHAM, England — Communist League members joined tens of thousands of trade unionists and others from the north of England, Scotland and elsewhere at the Durham Miners’ Gala July 12. The event included a contingent of striking refuse workers from…


Defense of Israel and the working-class struggle

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

Defense of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is not a religious question. It is a class and a national question, intertwined with the fight against national oppression across the globe. Israel’s right to exist…


Marxism is key to leading fight from capitalism to socialism

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
United Auto Workers members celebrate victory in 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors, Feb. 11, 1937. Only the working class has social power to transform society from top to bottom.

Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View by George Novack is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Novack, who was a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party, traces the advances and contradictions of empiricism, the ideological…


Tehran makes ‘legitimizing’ Israel punishable by death

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

The reactionary regime in Iran approved a law July 12 to “intensify punishment for espionage and collaboration with the Zionist regime and hostile countries against national security and interests.” The bill is actually aimed at framing up and terrorizing anyone…


US rulers move to expand their reach in West Africa

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

President Donald Trump hosted talks with the presidents of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal at the White House July 9 to discuss what U.S. officials called “incredible commercial opportunities.” In reality, the U.S. capitalist rulers are seeking to corner…


Ukraine unions appeal for solidarity against Moscow attacks

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

The two major labor unions in Ukraine — the Federation of Trade Unions (FPU) and the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU) — issued a joint appeal July 7. It calls on the international labor movement to respond to Moscow’s…


IAM member Maximo Londonio wins his freedom!

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

In an important victory for the rights of immigrant workers and for the union movement, International Association of Machinists Local 695 member Maximo Londonio, with hand raised, was released July 11 from the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center…


Health care workers strike over wages at HealthPartners clinic

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

STILLWATER, Minn. — Over 80 members of Service Employees International Union Minnesota & Iowa held a four-day strike here July 8-11 as they fight for a contract from HealthPartners SMG clinic. The strikers are licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants…


2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
Some 450 members of Teamsters Local 25 struck Republic Services July 1, suspending garbage services for 14 towns in Boston area. Strike has spread to Republic depots nationwide.

MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stockton in Northern California. The company’s garbage truck drivers, members of the same local, are…


Prime Minister Starmer: UK must be made to be ‘war ready’

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
As part of its growing preparations for new wars, London has ordered U.S.-made F-35A fighter-bombers, above, to give the U.K.’s imperialist rulers air-launched nuclear weapon capabilities.

LONDON — Looking to make the U.K.’s military “war ready,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a series of government moves to bolster its fighting capability June 2. The country faces a “more serious and immediate” threat than any time since…