Books on Cuba, Africa in demand at Toronto book fair

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

TORONTO — Eleven Pathfinder volunteers from Canada and the U.S. staffed a lively stand at Toronto’s annual open air Word On The Street fair Sept. 26-27, billed as Canada’s largest no-door-charge book and magazine festival. “Our top seller was Pathfinder’s…


Iran rulers step up executions as opposition to death penalty grows

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

From October last year to this October “at least 2,230 people have been executed in Iran, including 54 women, 47 political prisoners and four children,” the No to Executions Tuesday campaign reported Oct. 13. Organized by prisoners, the campaign’s weekly…


‘Workers have the capacity to change the course of history’

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

LONDON — “Our campaign was about discussing a road forward with fellow workers, building support for union fights and presenting the communist program,” said Jonathan Silberman, the Communist League’s candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election, at a…



NY Mayor Mamdani’s remarks Oct. 7 attack Jews, Israel

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a message Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the bloody Hamas pogrom in Israel, the biggest assault on Jews since the Holocaust. But he focused not on that atrocity, but on slanders against…


Join campaign to get out book on Cuba, Africa

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

The U.S. imperialist rulers, with their Democratic and Republican parties in tow, are working nonstop to try to poison the minds of working people about Cuba as they intensify their drive to starve the Cuban people into submission and crush…


200 join Montreal vigil marking Hamas pogrom

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

MONTREAL — Some 200 people gathered here Oct. 7 in a vigil organized by several Jewish student organizations at both McGill and Concordia — Israel on Campus, Jewish Law Student Association and the Medical & Dental Jewish Student Association —…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026

October 22, 2001 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Picket lines remain strong as more than 22,000 state workers remain on strike in Minnesota. Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees…



After botched execution, Christa Pike wakes up shackled to a bed

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Ambulance outside Tennessee death row forced to wait half hour to take Christa Pike to hospital after botched execution Sept. 30. Prison officials claimed they hadn’t called for one.

Christa Pike is back on death row in Tennessee after two torturous botched execution attempts Sept. 30 left her unconscious, but alive. Despite executioners stabbing at her body, attempting to inject two vials of the lethal drug pentobarbital in her…