Road to forging a fighting labor movement

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

The defense of the millions of workers without papers is a front-line battle for all workers, which must be taken up and led by the unions. Because of the bosses’ insatiable need for labor, immigration has grown, and native-born and…


The SWP and the fight to defend rights the working class needs

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Mass arrests of union, communist militants during 1920 “Palmer Raids” under Democratic President Woodrow Wilson led to arrests of up to 10,000, politically motivated deportations.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington’s Political Police and the American Working Class by Larry Seigle, Farrell Dobbs and Steve Clark. It explains how the U.S. rulers…


Despite brutal repression, Iran’s toilers find ways to renew protests

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
More than 1,000 people attend Jan. 11 funeral for teenager Alireza Seydi in Abdanan in Iran’s Ilam province, one of thousands massacred by the regime just days before. Unions, oppressed nationalities refuse to be cowed. They are demanding regime release all political prisoners.

More information is coming out about the number of protesters slaughtered by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran Jan. 8-9. The Human Rights Activists News Agency has confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,000 more. Two Iranian health ministry officials told…


Why are the US rulers out to take over Greenland?

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

President Donald Trump is seeking to expand the military reach of the U.S. rulers in the Arctic by taking control of key locations in Greenland. Washington is preparing for more and deadlier wars to come, reasserting its domination across the…



Canada court rules gov’t use of Emergencies Act was illegal

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Police use pepper spray as they assault truckers and other protesters in Ottawa Feb. 19, 2022. Federal government used the Emergencies Act to attack free speech, right to protest.

MONTREAL — In an important and hard-fought victory for working people and defenders of political rights, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled Jan. 16 that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the draconian Emergencies Act to…


Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US!

Unions need to lead to unify the working class
Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Thousands rallied in Minneapolis Jan. 23, protesting gov’t attacks, deportations of immigrant workers. Area unions built and organized to help ensure it was a disciplined, peaceful action.

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent protests and other events unfolding in Minneapolis over the last week show both the potential for building a powerful and disciplined union-led movement to fight and win amnesty for those in the working class without papers, as…


Kruger workers in Quebec strike for wages that offset inflation

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

MONTREAL — More than 150 workers at the Kruger plant in the LaSalle neighborhood here, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), are on strike for the first time in 51 years. They walked out Jan. 12, after…


Tacoma nurses fight for safe staffing levels, a new contract

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds of nurses, members of the Washington State Nurses Association, and their supporters picketed Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital here Jan. 23, protesting management’s refusal to include safe staffing ratios for neonatal intensive care…


31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Striking nurses picket Kaiser Hospital in Baldwin Park, near Los Angeles, Jan. 26. Some 31,000 hospital workers in California and Hawaii are fighting for safe staffing levels and a wage raise.

LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across California and in Hawaii Jan. 26, launching a strike against the Kaiser chain. The…