Sconza Chocolate workers rally against bosses’ cutback demands

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

OAKDALE, Calif. — As part of their fight for a better contract, some 50 Sconza Chocolate factory workers rallied here June 27 backed by family members and other supporters. The rally was organized by their union, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…


Chisago County workers strike enters its third month

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 170 workers in Chisago County Health and Human Services and its government center have been on strike since May in a fight over wages and health insurance.  “The county healthcare plan has a family deductible…


Haifa conference-goers visit British detention center for Jews

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Haifa conference-goers visit British detention center for Jews

ATLIT, Israel — Jonathan Silberman and Ólöf Andra Proppé, members of the Communist League in the U.K., Bob Aiken from the CL in Australia, and Lea Sherman and Rachele Fruit from the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. toured the Atlit…


Baltimore nurses hold 24-hour strike over lack of safe staffing

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital held a 24-hour strike here starting 7 a.m. July 6 to protest the hospital bosses’ refusal to deal with patient safety and chronic understaffing that leads to nurses seeking other jobs.  There…


Communist League candidate wins support in Montreal

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Communist League candidate wins support in Montreal

MONTREAL — Joe Young, left, the Communist League candidate in the St. Laurent district for next October’s provincial election, campaigned door to door here June 24.  Supporters of Young’s campaign are gathering the 100 signatures needed to get him on…


Castro: ‘Victory depends on moral values, not weapons’

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Doctor (right) treats mercenary captured at Bay of Pigs, Cuba, April 1961. No wounded soldiers were left without medical care, just like the Cuban defenders — a matter of principle.

The Spanish edition of  Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The selection, “For revolutionaries victory in war depends on…


What does today’s Mamdani hysteria mean for the working class?

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

Bourgeois newspapers everywhere have generated stories about the narrow victories of two members of the Democratic Socialists of America, along with a former member, in Democratic Party primary elections in New York City June 23. All were endorsed by DSA…


Support Cargill meatpackers fighting boss lockout

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 455 members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here have been locked out by the company’s profit-drive bosses since May 20. The company has significant influence…


How egg monopoly bosses jacked-up prices

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

Egg prices surged to unheard of heights over the past several years. The bosses of the giant egg company monopolies blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu. But what was really behind the price hikes was the monopolies combined…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

July 23, 2001 Today there is an opportunity for working people to take stock of the class character of what the medical industry is all about under capitalism.  Unlike many problems that still need to be solved by humanity, there…