Quebec Metro warehouse workers strike over jobs, wages, safety

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Members of United Grocers Workers Union at April 2 mass meeting in Montreal reject Metro supermarket bosses’ wage proposal of just 11% over six years. Sign reads, “We deserve more!”

MONTREAL — “We’re determined to fight to win a living wage, safe working conditions and livable work schedules,” Mathieu Gagnon, secretary of the United Grocers Workers Union and picket captain since the workers went on strike March 30, told the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

April 16, 2001 HARTFORD, Conn. — “The Cuban people are carrying out many projects to advance our cultural level and develop higher human values,” Cuban youth leader Yanelis Martínez told a meeting at the University of Hartford here. Martínez and…


Supreme Court hears case on birthright citizenship

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 1 on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order issued the first day of his second term, effectively overturning the section of the 14th Amendment that grants birthright citizenship to virtually…


Stakes for working people in fight to end Mideast war

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The shaky two-week ceasefire reached by Washington and Tehran April 7 is a further step along the course pursued by the U.S. rulers to impose a “Pax Americana” across the Middle East. The same thing was true of the shaky…


Get all US troops, bombers, warships out of the Mideast!

Washington seeks to dominate, plunder the region
Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Bridge under construction to link Tehran and Karaj, Iran, was heavily damaged in U.S. airstrike April 2. Washington threatened to destroy Iranian infrastructure, electric grid and bridges.

Shaky ceasefire agreed on, but fighting still continues Tehran and Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire April 7 just an hour before the deadline set by President Donald Trump. He threatened the U.S. military would bomb Iran’s electric power stations,…


Meatpackers struggle at JBS continues while back on the job

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova speaks to hundreds of JBS workers on status of fight with bosses April 3, translated into Spanish, Haitian Creole, Burmese, Somali. Workers cheered when she said company would pay workers back for mesh gloves and vests they were forced to buy.

GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…



Radical Reconstruction extended revolutionary gains of Civil War

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Freed slaves, enfranchised in 1870, ford a creek in Georgia, rifles in hand, on way to the polls. To exercise the right to vote during Radical Reconstruction, African Americans needed disciplined organization and self-defense.

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The chapter, “Radical Reconstruction: Its conquests…


Cincinnati BCTGM offers solidarity to JBS strikers

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

CINCINNATI — Workers at the Mars Kellanova plant here, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, are organizing solidarity with UFCW Local 7 meatpackers locked in a contract fight with JBS in Greeley, Colorado. Local 57…


Washington’s war on Iran sharpens imperialist rivalries around the world

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

As the crisis of capitalism deepens, conflicts between the competing ruling classes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere become ever sharper. Washington’s decision to go to war against Iran has exacerbated divisions between the U.S. rulers and the governments of…