Temporary Protected Status restored for Haitians

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

MIAMI — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States on TPS — Temporary Protected Status — who have been protected from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least Feb. 3, 2026, with the right…


Manchester union rally backs striking UK refuse workers

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — A lively public meeting in support of striking Birmingham refuse workers, members of Unite, was organized by the Manchester Trades Union Council July 9. “Birmingham Council thinks the way out of their debt is to put workers…


Protests overturn ICE arrest of students in NY, Massachusetts

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
Milford High School students, teachers demand classmate Marcelo Gomes da Silva be released from ICE detention June 2. Protests were successful, Gomes da Silva was released June 5.

NEW YORK — Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, a 20-year-old student originally from Ecuador who is enrolled in a GED program here, was greeted by family and friends July 16 at the Port Authority bus terminal. She had just been released after three…


Thugs attack Jewish-owned San Francisco cafe, twice

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

A small group of Jew-hating thugs attacked Manny’s, a café and community center in the Mission District of San Francisco, in the early evening June 9. The attack came as the café was hosting a meeting on San Francisco city…


State officials increase executions as opposition grows

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

On July 15 Michael Bernard Bell, 54, became the eighth death row inmate to be executed in Florida this year, and the 26th killed overall in the U.S. This already surpasses the 25 executions nationwide for all of last year.…


Putin sends released POWs back to the front to be killed

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

The savage character of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people today means not only deadly aerial attacks on their cities, but also a callous contempt for the lives and families of Russian workers and farmers in uniform.…


Netanyahu foes trample on rights as Israel fights Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

In the middle of a life-or-death war to defend Israel’s existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms — the only such refuge in a world where attacks on Jews are on the rise — Israel has been wracked by…


The Bolsheviks tore down czar’s ‘prison house of nations’

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led workers, peasants to power. In 1918-22, special trains reached the remotest regions and oppressed peoples offering education, culture to overcome mass illiteracy. Revolution championed the right of oppressed nations to self-determination.

Among Pathfinder’s July Books of the Month is The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? by Leon Trotsky. In October 1917 workers and peasants in Russia, led by V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, began…


Quebec Steelworkers at Rio Tinto strike over wages and vacations

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

SOREL-TRACY, Quebec — Some 180 United Steelworkers union members have been on strike against Rio Tinto’s iron and titanium operation here since July 10. They are fighting for better wages and against concessions the company demands on their vacations. The…


Locked-out Canada aerospace workers fight for wage parity

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
Workers at Heroux-Devtek in Laval, Quebec, hold union meeting on their picket line, July 18. After a one-day strike calling for a wage increase, the company locked them out.

LAVAL, Quebec — Twenty-four hours after 100 workers walked off the job in a one-day strike July 8, the Heroux-Devtek bosses, rather than negotiating with their union, the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), locked them out. Heroux-Devtek is the…