‘Cuban Book Day’ celebrates 1961 battle for literacy, reading

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
On the heels of the 1959 revolution, Cuba began mass production of books to advance culture, starting with Don Quixote. The 1961 literacy campaign ensured all Cubans could read.

In the midst of Washington’s stepped-up economic war aimed at strangling the Cuban people, “Cuban Book Day” was celebrated in Havana and several of the country’s provinces March 31. The events marked the founding of the country’s National Printing House…


Washington’s war on Iran sharpens imperialist rivalries around the world

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

As the crisis of capitalism deepens, conflicts between the competing ruling classes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere become ever sharper. Washington’s decision to go to war against Iran has exacerbated divisions between the U.S. rulers and the governments of…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…



Refuse strikers remain defiant despite fine on union

Vol. 90/No. 14 - April 13, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England — “We will not be pushed aside,” strike leader Danny Taylor told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of striking refuse workers at the Atlas depot here March 19. The workers, members of the Unite union, have been on…