Unions, others step up fight to defend immigrant workers from deportation

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
SMART General President Michael Coleman demands return of fellow union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at news conference in Maryland April 4. Abrego was denied due process, deported, imprisoned in El Salvador. His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, is leading the fight.

WASHINGTON — “Bring Kilmar Home,” the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA posted on its Facebook page April 27. “Flight attendant, union apprentice, farmworker. It doesn’t matter where you work. An injury to one is an injury to all.” They joined a…


Shin Bet treason opened door to Hamas pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

After Hamas carried out its deadly pogrom Oct. 7, 2023, acrimonious divisions that have wracked Israeli politics for years heated up. It has now turned into a political civil war. The liberal capitalist media in Israel and the U.S. present…



SWP in 1938: ‘Revolutionary party has to combat Jew-hatred’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who led…


What’s behind the India-Pakistan war over Kashmir

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Four days of escalating fighting erupted between the rulers of India and Pakistan May 7, threatening full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed powers. Growing out of cross-border shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, drone and air-launched missile strikes soon…


Pathfinder title on Cuba introduced at Bogotá book fair

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It was appropriate that the first copies of Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro, a new book from Pathfinder just off the presses, were released at…


Working-class road to stop imperialism’s wars

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Capitalist rulers across Europe held commemorations celebrating “Victory in Europe” Day last week, marking the end of the second imperialist world war there. At the same time, they’re pushing to crank up their militaries in preparation for more bloody slaughters,…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

May 22, 2000 U.S. Navy warplanes resumed bombing practice on Vieques May 8, in a demonstrative show of force to try to intimidate those who have been fighting to get the U.S. military out of that Puerto Rican island. This…