Locked-out refinery workers at BP win new support

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

WHITING, Ind. — Ever since they were locked out by BP over three months ago, the 800 members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 here have been on the picket line 24/7 and won a lot of support. Visitors to the…


Philadelphia UNITE HERE workers strike Sheraton Hotel

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Philadelphia UNITE HERE workers strike Sheraton Hotel

PHILADELPHIA — Some 160 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, struck the Sheraton Hotel, the largest in Philadelphia, June 21. A four-day walkout last October ended without a new contract. The workers are seeking wages of $30 per hour,…


SWP holds international conference, plans to meet new opportunities

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes presents political report to June international party conference. With Barnes, from left are SWP leaders Paul Mailhot, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark.

OBERLIN, Ohio — The SWP opened its 2026 International Conference here June 11-14 under a large banner reading, “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, at podium, gave the political report.…


Workers discuss how to take on new attacks on immigrants in UK

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance union contingent joins June 13 protest in Belfast against anti-immigrant riots. U.K. parties of all stripes are pushing crackdown on immigration.

MANCHESTER, England — Anti-immigrant riots broke out for several days in parts of Northern Ireland after a June 8 brutal knife attack on Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast by Hadi Alodid, originally from Sudan. The riots occurred as both the Labour…


Quebec gov’t moves to deny childcare to asylum seekers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

MONTREAL — “The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) deplores the government’s legal harassment of asylum seekers by pursuing their case all the way to the Supreme Court to restrict their access to the early childhood education and care network.…


Ultraleft thug tactics pose obstacle to protests at NJ ICE jail

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Family members, supporters rally outside Delaney Hall detention center in Newark June 21. Inset, Roberto Silveira, whose brother is held inside by ICE, told Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, that Trump’s lying when he says he only uses ICE against criminals.

NEWARK, N.J. — Families of immigrants held at Delaney Hall detention center here lined up to visit their loved ones on Father’s Day June 21. Prison authorities had suspended visits for a week in a vindictive response to a hunger…


G7 summit shows deepening rifts among capitalist powers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

President Donald Trump joined other government leaders for a Group of Seven summit held at a French resort June 16-17. This is one of the main imperialist blocs set up to confront challenges to the capitalist world order that emerged…


Protests continue to spread in Iran, despite arrests, executions

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Workers at West Islamabad Health Center in Iran’s Kermanshah province protest June 22 over wages, benefits and delays in getting paid. “We are the guardians of people’s health in a deprived region, but we ourselves are struggling,” they told the Iranian Labour News Agency.

Despite devastating losses to its military, police and other parts of its repressive apparatus, as well as the destruction of many factories during the recent wars with Washington and Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei claimed the ceasefire it…


‘US hands off Cuba,’ say Puerto Rican Parade marchers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
‘US hands off Cuba,’ say Puerto Rican Parade marchers

CHICAGO — Opponents of Washington’s deepening attacks against Cuba got a tremendous response from thousands of people lining the route of the annual Puerto Rican People’s Parade here June 13. Two dozen people took part in a special Cuba solidarity…


SWP exposed decades of FBI spying, political disruption

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Los Angeles SWP headquarters firebombed in May 1970, with four people inside, by counterrevolutionary Cubans with long history of working with FBI and CIA. Inset, SWP leader Syd Stapleton with 3,138 documents the FBI was forced to turn over as a result of the SWP lawsuit.

Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June features Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock. Much of what is known about this decadeslong political disruption program is the result of evidence forced into the light through…