CL campaigns against rise in threats, attacks on Jews in UK

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Jonathan Silberman, right, Communist League candidate in Holborn and St. Pancras by-election in London, campaigns at Oct. 4 march marking working-class protest in 1936 against Jew-hating action by British fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, former leader of Labour Party left.

LONDON — “Only the Communist League is placing the fight against Jew-hatred as a key issue in its campaigning,” Jonathan Silberman told over 100 people at an election candidates’ debate Sept. 24. He is the Communist League candidate in the…


Rallies defend immigrant workers in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Students march and rally in Denver Sept. 4 after walking out of class at more than 200 high schools in Colorado to demand a halt to ICE raids, construction of new ICE detention centers.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on three towns in southwestern Kansas — Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal — at the end of September, stopping cars and making arrests of immigrant workers. Their operations were met by protests by…


Locked-out Marathon refinery workers fight for safety

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out members of United Steelworkers Local 5 here are picketing 24/7 at the North and South Gates of Marathon’s biofuels refinery. Over 100 workers went on strike April 27 and then were locked out by Marathon bosses…


Women’s oppression was born with the rise of class society

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Contingent in International Women’s Day march, Wollongong, Australia, March 1984. Successful fight forced Port Kembla BHP steelworks to end ban and hire hundreds of women.

Is Biology Woman’s Destiny? by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Reed was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, an author and spokeswoman for the party in the 1960s and early ’70s in…


Montreal protest says: ‘End US blockade of Cuba!’

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

MONTREAL — Some 50 people picketed in front of the busy Berri-UQAM subway station here Oct. 1 in an action in defense of Cuba called by the Quebec-Cuba Solidarity Roundtable. They called for the Canadian government to oppose the U.S.…



Ukraine unions call for solidarity in face of Moscow’s bombs

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026

The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NGPU) issued an urgent appeal Oct. 2 for “strengthened international solidarity with Ukrainian workers and trade unions amid the continuing escalation of Russian attacks.” This follows a similar appeal two days earlier…


85th anniversary of Babyn Yar pogrom is marked in Ukraine

Vol. 90/No. 37 - October 19, 2026
Ceremony at Menorah Memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 29, on 85th anniversary of “Holocaust by bullets” at Babyn Yar, where 33,000 Jews were shot, buried in a ravine by Nazi occupiers.

The 85th anniversary of the “Holocaust by bullets,” one of the worst single atrocities by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, was commemorated at Babyn Yar on the outskirts of Kyiv Sept. 29. Less than two weeks after the German imperialist army…



Navy: 8 sailors tried suicide on USS Lincoln

Vol. 90/No. 36 - October 12, 2026

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao admitted in a Sept. 22 letter to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships. The aircraft carrier strike group spent more than…