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…


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…


Hungarian voters reject Orban, Moscow, as capitalist crisis grows

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Election eve opposition rally in Hungary April 11. Voters overwhelmingly rejected Viktor Orban’s pro-Moscow ruling Fidesz party, as workers, youth look to end economic, social crisis.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, in power for 16 years and backed by both the Kremlin and the Donald Trump White House, were heavily defeated in elections April 12. Peter Magyar’s moderate conservative Tisza party won…


Exhibit shows Japanese Americans’ internment during World War II

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

“Am I an American or Am I Not?” is the title of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the public library in Temecula, California. It has been showing in big cities like Boston and small ones like Clarksdale, Mississippi,…


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…



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…


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.…


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…


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…