Communist League campaigns for ballot in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

MONTREAL — The Communist League is campaigning to put Katy LeRougetel on the ballot for mayor of Montreal and Philippe Tessier for mayor of the borough of Saint Leonard for the November municipal elections. To qualify, LeRougetel needs 200 signatures…


Montreal action says ‘Cuba sí, bloqueo no!’

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Montreal action says ‘Cuba sí, bloqueo no!’

MONTREAL — More than 50 people joined in a demonstration at the Cuban Consulate here July 26 celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks led by Fidel Castro that was the…


Striking Illinois cannery workers fight two-tier pay

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

HOOPESTON, Ill. — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 have been on strike at Teasdale Latin Foods cannery here since June 1, fighting company moves to reimpose a two-tier pay scale and change work schedules…


Nurses in Minnesota, Wisconsin end 13-day strike over safety

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Nurses Association announced July 22 that it had ended its 13-day strike at Essentia Health here and in Wisconsin. Health care workers had gone out on strike July 8 at Essentia clinics and other facilities…


Teamsters strike Airgas for higher pay, affordable health care

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Fifteen drivers and warehouse workers, members of Teamsters Local 507, went on strike at this Airgas location southeast of Cleveland June 26 in response to the company’s refusal to negotiate an acceptable contract. Airgas workers in…


Nurses in Baltimore strike 1 day for more staff to assist patients

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore on 24-hour strike picket July 24, fighting for a first contract with safe staffing levels, a life-an­­­­d-death issue for patients.

BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital here held a spirited 24-hour picket line July 24, making history as the first group of organized nurses at a hospital in the city to strike. National Nurses United, which represents 600…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

August 14, 2000 “U.S. Bases Out!” read the yellow vests worn by many protesters in a demonstration by 27,000 people on the Japanese island of Okinawa. “The U.S. military owns our land, our sea, and our sky,” said one angry…


Protests hit Zelensky move on ‘corruption’

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

Large demonstrations broke out against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s move July 22 to push through a law putting the prosecutor general, whom he had appointed, in charge over two “anti-corruption” government agencies. Within days Zelensky retreated. After security forces arrested…


Imperialism’s march to a third world war

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

The rivalries between imperialist powers for markets, resources and influence are sharpening today. They’re producing new border skirmishes, Jew-hating violence and an escalating arms race, all leading inexorably toward a third world war. As capitalism’s economic and political crisis deepens,…


Cuba’s socialist revolution renewed communist continuity

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025
May 1, 1961, toilers march in Havana with banner celebrating “the workers in power.” Led by Fidel Castro, working people of Cuba embarked on the first socialist revolution in the Americas, in continuity with the course of V.I. Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August is the French edition of The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by party leaders Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark. It…