Hundreds in Tacoma, Wash., protest against deportations

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds have protested in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Northwest Detention Center here over the past two weeks. On July 14 demonstrators brought support for several immigrants facing immigration court hearings that day. Family members of…


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…


Banana workers, unions protest Panama gov’t attack on pensions

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

In March, the government of José Raúl Mulino, president of Panama, announced plans to reform the country’s social security system, sparking widespread protests by unions organizing teachers, nurses, construction workers and banana farmworkers. He approved the “reform” law March 18.…


Ottawa pushes harsh sentences for Canada truckers’ leaders

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

MONTREAL — Federal prosecutors are pushing for “extraordinary” harsh prison sentences for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The two were prominent spokespeople in the 2022 Freedom Convoy organized by truckers demanding the repeal of government-imposed COVID mandates that threatened their…


Hamas, not Israel, is responsible for food shortages in Gaza

Vol. 89/No. 28 - August 11, 2025

A barrage of articles in the bourgeois press, along with statements by Democratic Party politicians, President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and reports from United Nations bodies, all claim that large numbers of children are starving to…


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…


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,…


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…


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…