Back fight for asylum for Kilmar Abrego García! No to deportation

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Kilmar Abrego García speaks at Baltimore rally before reporting to ICE officials Aug. 25. At left is his wife, Jennifer Vásquez Sura; his brother, César, stands behind him. At right is his lawyer.

BALTIMORE — After 170 days in prison in both the U.S. and El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego García won his fight to be released from prison on parole Aug. 22. The wrongfully detained 30-year-old apprentice sheet metal worker and member of…


US armada aimed at Venezuela is threat to the country’s sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Guided-missile warships, like destroyers in Arab-Persian Gulf in 2018, are being deployed off Venezuela as Washington threatens to topple government under guise of fighting drug cartels.

Washington is deploying a significant naval and military armada, the U.S. rulers’ latest move in its longstanding efforts to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela and overthrow its president, Nicolás Maduro. It is also a show of force aimed at intimidating…


SWP candidate wins support on Chicago Labor Day march

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
SWP candidate wins support on Chicago Labor Day march

CHICAGO — “This is my first time on strike, and I’m learning a lot,” Linne Boyd, right, a member of Teamsters Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions, told David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and SWP member…


Protests grow in Iran despite attacks by weakened regime

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Fight to overturn firing, suspension of teachers in Kurdish region of Iran is winning support from Truckers union, Islamist teachers groups, many others. Above, Aug. 29 protest in Sanandaj.

Opposition to the firing, forced retirement or suspension by the government of at least 17 teachers in Iran’s Kurdish region is winning broad support among toilers in Iran and strengthening the fight against the regime’s crackdown on political rights. The…


In struggle, truckers learned the power of their strength as a class

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Omaha, Nebraska, June 1937. Strikers celebrate as first truck leaves with a union driver after they won a contract at Arrow Motors Freight. Victory was result of a drive, led by Minneapolis Teamsters, that in a few years organized a quarter million over-the-road truckers in 11 states.

Teamster Power by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Dobbs tells the story of how members of Teamsters Local 574 in Minneapolis wielded the union power they forged through three victorious 1934 strikes. With…


Ukraine battles to stop Moscow’s deadly invasion

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has stepped up its murderous airstrikes on working people in Ukraine’s cities as it pursues its goal of conquering the country. It rebuffed attempts by President Donald Trump to broker an end to the conflict…


All working-class battles are political fights

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

More workers today are speaking up, using unions and organizing solidarity. Opportunities to build and strengthen the labor movement continue to open up, which were reflected at Labor Day actions nationwide. Strikes by members of the United Auto Workers at…


Fight against Jew-hatred crucial for Bolshevik victory in civil war

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Workers turn out to greet Red Army soldiers who liberated Odesa, Ukraine — which had the largest Jewish population in czarist Russia — from counterrevolutionary forces in 1919. By the end of the civil war in 1921, the Red Army had put an end to anti-Jewish pogroms.

In the Russian Revolution and its defense against imperialist attack and capitalist-led civil war afterward, the V.I. Lenin-led Bolshevik Party put the fight against Jew-hatred at the center of its proletarian internationalist course. Today, reactionary leaders in the Ukraine government’s…


Workers bear brunt of today’s capitalist crisis

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today is bearing down hardest on working-class families. High prices for basic necessities, including groceries, rent, electricity, medical care, child care, care for the elderly and more make it difficult to make ends meet. Under…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

September 11, 2000 Through a militant strike against telecommunications giant Verizon, some 86,000 workers emerged victorious after two and a half weeks. Workers won a central demand—removing obstacles to the union’s ability to organize the fast-growing wireless division of the…