Ottawa urges longer jail time for convoy leaders

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

MONTREAL — The Canadian federal government is continuing its vindictive drive to railroad to prison Tamara Lich and trucker Chris Barber, spokespersons for the trucker-led 2022 Freedom Convoy outside Parliament. This was part of a fight to end government job-threatening…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

The exact cause of the deadly crash of a 34-year-old United Parcel Service cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 4 hasn’t yet been determined. But the deaths of 14 people were not “accidents.” Nor are the hundreds of other lives…


Stalin’s ‘Popular Front’ in France blocked workers taking power

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers occupy Renault auto plant in France, May 1936, part of wave of sit-down strikes that posed possibility for fight by workers to take power. Communist, Socialist parties in alliance with liberal capitalists in Popular Front government blocked the revolutionary upsurge.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) by Leon Trotsky. Growing class battles across Europe, from rising proletarian struggles in France to the Spanish Revolution, posed the need for workers…


Attacks on Arab bus drivers shows challenges in Israel

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

A spike in violence against bus drivers in Jerusalem sheds light on the challenges and the opportunities to overcome divisions in the working class and to strengthen the unions in Israel. There are several bus lines serving the Jerusalem area…


Iran: Oil, power workers protest contract labor system

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Iran: Oil, power workers protest contract labor system

More than 1,000 Iranian oil workers and their family members, from all across the country especially the southern oil fields, protested outside the president’s offices in Tehran Nov. 1. They were joined by electrical workers at power plants who face…



US moves to deport Kilmar Abrego García to Africa

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed a new motion before Judge Paula Xinis in U.S. District Court in Maryland Nov. 7 seeking to have Kilmar Abrego García deported to Liberia, thousands of miles from his wife…


Help SWP go over the top in Party-Building Fund

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

As we enter the final week to raise $140,000 for the Socialist Workers Party-Building Fund, party branches report success in winning new contributors who are interested in supporting the SWP’s work. Marklyn Wilson, an SWP member from Atlanta, reports that…


Doctors strike Allina over clinic closures, workloads, unpaid work

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS — “Health care is a human right!” and “Doctors on the outside? Trouble on the inside,” were chanted by hundreds of members of the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, during a one-day strike against…


Houston convention center unionists win 25% wage hike

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the heels of the victory of the 40-day strike by members of UNITE HERE Local 23 at the Hilton hotel in Houston, some 100 food service workers at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center…