Iran toilers mount protests amid ongoing war and gov’t repression

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
Garment workers at Barak textile factory in Khorasan province protest layoffs, wage arrears, denial of unemployment insurance.

“Inflation, high prices, no to war and destruction,” chanted dozens of retired workers in Shush in Iran’s Khuzestan province. “Livelihood and dignity are our undeniable rights.” Their action was just one of more than a dozen protests or strikes across…


Rhode Island museum: Rich history of Cape Verdean immigrants

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
Al Gomes, left, museum volunteer, explains Cape Verdean role in whaling industry to SWP leaders Paul Mailhot and Mary-Alice Waters, editor of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde June 28. Inset, Cape Verdeans labor on cranberry farm, early 1900s.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Cape Verdean Museum here is unique. Its displays of photos, posters, crafts and publications, almost all donated by community members, give a vivid feel for the experiences of many generations of immigrants from that West African…


Ascension hospital bosses boost their profits by slashing away nurses’ jobs

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

With picket signs that read “Greed kills/nurses heal” and “Safe staffing saves lives,” nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a 24-hour strike against systematic understaffing July 6. The same day nearly 1,200 nurses struck two Ascension hospitals…


Boston, British Columbia nurses fight to improve contracts

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026

BOSTON — “Today we walked back into the Brigham together with our heads held high because we never stopped fighting for our patients,” Kelly Morgan, the Massachusetts Nursing Association Brigham Nurse Chair, told the press July 13. Their return followed…



Montreal actions protest deadly cop attacks on Afghani youth

Vol. 90/No. 26 - July 27, 2026
Protest in Montreal Sept. 27, 2025, after police shot Afghani immigrant youth Nooran Rezayi. Instead of arresting the cops who killed Rezayi, authorities are harassing, arresting area youth.

MONTREAL — Eight months after a police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi in Longueuil on Sept. 21, 2025, setting off protests, police here announced not that charges were being lodged against an officer, but that criminal charges were…


Toilers in Ukraine fight to back their nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Over 52,000 Kyiv residents took to city Metro stations during Moscow’s bombardment July 2.

The indomitable people of Ukraine and their battle to defend their country’s sovereignty have fought far larger Russian forces to a standstill on the frontline after almost four and a half years of war. Ukraine’s use of drone warfare is…


Montgomery movement dealt blow to Jim Crow, strengthened working class

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
E.D. Nixon escorts Rosa Parks, center, to courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, March 19, 1956. Leaders of the powerful Black bus boycott organized by thousands there were on trial.

The victorious Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1956 marked a new stage in the mighty battle against Jim Crow and brought it to national attention. It demonstrated the unwavering courage of the Black population and the resourcefulness of a working-class…


Rhode Island event discusses Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau freedom fight

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Panel discussion on Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde by Cuban revolutionary Víctor Dreke June 28 in Rhode Island. Abel Djassi Amado speaks in front of photo of Amílcar Cabral, leader of independence fight, and Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Surrounded by exhibits about the immigration of Cape Verdeans to the U.S. and their rich history of struggle, some 40 people attended a June 28 discussion at the Cape Verdean Museum here on Pathfinder’s new book Cuba…


US rulers’ war in Mideast aims at more sway over resources, labor

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

The unstable ceasefire between Washington and Tehran that began April 8, after 40 days of U.S. airstrikes and Iranian drone and missile attacks on Israel and its Arab rivals in the Middle East, was broken yet again when Tehran attacked…