Secret RCMP operation against political rights in Canada exposed

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Some 400 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, army, other cops launched monthlong assault on Indigenous activists carrying out land occupation at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, in 1995.

MONTREAL — Newly declassified Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service files have confirmed that in the 1960s and ’70s the Canadian rulers’ top spy outfit systematically infiltrated and sought to disrupt Indigenous and other political groups.  The RCMP program “was…



Quebec USW unionists strike for better conditions and respect

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

PLESSISVILLE, Quebec — “The biggest issue in our strike is to be treated with respect. They don’t treat us like human beings,” Alain Martineau, one of 100 United Steelworkers walking the picket line at Cooperative Citadelle’s maple syrup factory, told…


Quebec Metro warehouse workers strike over jobs, wages, safety

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Members of United Grocers Workers Union at April 2 mass meeting in Montreal reject Metro supermarket bosses’ wage proposal of just 11% over six years. Sign reads, “We deserve more!”

MONTREAL — “We’re determined to fight to win a living wage, safe working conditions and livable work schedules,” Mathieu Gagnon, secretary of the United Grocers Workers Union and picket captain since the workers went on strike March 30, told the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

April 16, 2001 HARTFORD, Conn. — “The Cuban people are carrying out many projects to advance our cultural level and develop higher human values,” Cuban youth leader Yanelis Martínez told a meeting at the University of Hartford here. Martínez and…


Supreme Court hears case on birthright citizenship

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 1 on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order issued the first day of his second term, effectively overturning the section of the 14th Amendment that grants birthright citizenship to virtually…


Radical Reconstruction extended revolutionary gains of Civil War

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Freed slaves, enfranchised in 1870, ford a creek in Georgia, rifles in hand, on way to the polls. To exercise the right to vote during Radical Reconstruction, African Americans needed disciplined organization and self-defense.

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The chapter, “Radical Reconstruction: Its conquests…


Cincinnati BCTGM offers solidarity to JBS strikers

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

CINCINNATI — Workers at the Mars Kellanova plant here, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, are organizing solidarity with UFCW Local 7 meatpackers locked in a contract fight with JBS in Greeley, Colorado. Local 57…


40 years on, Moscow’s war risks a new Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Monument at site of 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in memory of Ukrainian firefighters who died fighting radioactive blaze there. Plaque says: “To those who saved the world.”

The 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the 1986 explosion and fire destroying reactor No. 4 of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, is April 26. But Moscow’s over-four-year-long war attempting to seize that sovereign country risks…


SWP NJ ballot drive advances

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Tahjj Hemby, right, talks with Craig Honts, SWP candidate for Congress in New Jersey. He signed the petition, bought Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party members are winning support to put the party’s candidates, Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate and Craig Honts for U.S. Congress, on the ballot in New Jersey. Many workers are pleased to sign up…