Rally in Quebec calls for defense of immigrants’ rights

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec — Hundreds protested here April 12 outside the leadership convention of the province’s governing party, the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ). Protesters included ambulance drivers, organized by the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), who have…


Bay of Pigs: Washington’s first military defeat in the Americas

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Cuban militia members celebrate after April 1961 victory over U.S.-sponsored mercenary force, helping transform their country, themselves as they set example for workers worldwide.

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs 1961: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This year is the 65th anniversary of this victory by Cuban…


SWP candidates: Tribunes of the people

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

The candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are the only voice in the 2026 elections that champion workers’ struggles for a better life in the face of the rulers’ attacks at home and speak out against their bloody wars abroad.…


Court: Vindictive prison transfer unconstitutional

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

In a legal victory based on the constitutional right to due process, U.S. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C., blocked the Department of Justice from transferring 20 former death row prisoners to the only federal “supermax” prison in the…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

April 23, 2001 HAVANA — “The antiaircraft gunners who fought at Playa Girón were almost all 15, 16, 17 years old. At 22, I was one of the oldest,” said Enrique Dorta, a colonel in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, who…


Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Hundreds of Cuban women, answering a call by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), demonstrated at the Mariana Grajales Park in Havana April 7 in defense of Cuba’s socialist revolution and to demand an end to Washington’s blockade against the…


End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East

Bring troops, bombers, warships home now!
Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln, above right, leads one of three U.S. carrier strike groups in Middle East as Washington blockades boats from Iran’s ports, threatens escalation, seeks new negotiations.

The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarter” and more “reasonable” than their predecessors, who were assassinated in the U.S. war — to try to reach…


Cuba’s doctors fight to counter the effects of US blockade

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…


JBS strike wins better contract, stronger union in Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
March 25 picket line of workers originally from Mexico and Cuba during three-week strike by 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of UFCW Local 7, at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…