Malcolm X aimed to wake people up to their own ‘self-worth’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Malcolm X spoke to thousands at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Feb. 3, 1965. Then SNCC Black rights fighters took the revolutionary leader to speak in Selma, where a sharp battle was raging.

To mark Black History Month, Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February features Malcolm X on Afro-American History by the most outstanding leader of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. The book contains speeches and other selections from Malcolm…


Deaths in US mines rise as bosses push to boost profits

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

PITTSBURGH — The coal mining bosses reported 33 miners were killed in industrial accidents in 2025, up 27% from 2024, when the Mine Safety and Health Administration reported 26 miners died on the job. The majority of last year’s fatalities…


Moscow drone strikes kill 12 Ukraine coal miners

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Moscow drone strikes kill 12 Ukraine coal miners

Drone strikes by Moscow killed 12 coal miners and injured 16 more in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region Feb. 1. In the “double tap” attack, the Russian pilot of an Iranian-made drone targeted a bus with workers coming off their shift from…


CL candidate Hugo Wils looks for workers to take state power

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Hugo Wils, Communist League candidate for Parliament in Gorton and Denton constituency, interviewed by Politics Joe internet reporter at Birmingham refuse strikers picket line Jan. 30.

MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League explains that the only way to prevent another world war and the mounting devastation workers face, is for the working class to take political power,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and…


Will rulers in China replace US imperialism as world’s top dog?

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
With high youth unemployment in China, many students who can’t find jobs pay for the “privilege” of pretending to work to fulfill university diploma requirements, reassure their parents. Above, mock office with students at Pretend to Work Company in Hangzhou, China.

The U.S. imperialist rulers regard the state-capitalist regime in Beijing as the main threat to their ebbing control of the “world order.” Washington is pushing back Beijing’s influence in the Western Hemisphere, trying to isolate it elsewhere and putting together…


‘We won’t retreat in the face of the massacre,’ Iranian oil workers say

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The systematic massacre of 10,000 or more protesters by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, police and paramilitary thugs cut short the wave of demonstrations that was spreading across Iran. But far from demoralizing working people, the repression deepened their anger…



Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses in 2nd week in California, Hawaii

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 Kaiser nurses and other health care workers, members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, in California and Hawaii entered its second week Feb. 2. The central issue…


The SWP is the peace party in the working class

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

Growing numbers of workers are looking for the way to bring an end to today’s wars and prevent even more deadly conflicts. Workers’ desire to live in peace is founded on the fact the working class has no interest in…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

February 12, 2001 Over the past few months Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken measures to increase Russia’s leverage over neighboring countries, particularly Georgia and Ukraine, which were once republics of the former Soviet Union. Russia’s state-owned gas companies shut…