Working people in Cuba come together to battle water crisis

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Cuban water truck supplies residents in Pinar del Río. Washington’s tightening oil blockade of the island causes power blackouts that stop water pumps, shortages of medical supplies. U.S. Embassy in Havana cynically issued health alert to U.S. travelers about poor water quality, lack of medicines.

The growing lack of safe drinking water in Cuba today is a product of the U.S. government’s ever-tightening oil blockade and punishing sanctions against the import of energy and other resources. This means a much greater risk of serious health…


USS Abraham Lincoln: The US rulers care little about GIs

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

Working-class families, including the young men and women in uniform in the U.S., just got a stark lesson in how little the capitalist rulers here are concerned about the well-being of its troops. For the ruling families, they’re just cannon…


Does German vote open door to the return of fascist rule?

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Berlin is sharply expanding militarization, including converting car plants to arms production. Above, production line at Rheinmetall tank factory, the largest in Europe, in Kassel, Germany.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…


1964: Freedom Summer took Jim Crow fight into Mississippi

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Standing up to racist harassment and violence, Laura McGhee, above, opened her small farm outside Greenwood, Mississippi, to SNCC campaigners and others for rallies and meetings during the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to build the movement, deal blows to Jim Crow.

The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…


Support Socialist Workers Party campaigns across the country

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

As the November elections in the U.S. draw closer, working people facing a choice of Donald Trump clones vs. middle-class, woke “socialists,” like Democratic Party candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, are looking for an alternative. Many who hear…



Weakened Tehran turns to Houthis to exert leverage on Washington, Saudis

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

The Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen have stepped up their missile and drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities and seized more territory from Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, including the strategic port of Mokha Sept. 11. The reactionary group has taken…


Join the Communist League’s campaign in Britain!

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Join the Communist League’s campaign in Britain!

LONDON — The Communist League is standing party leader Jonathan Silberman in the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election here, to present a working-class road forward in the face of the sharpening attacks by the ruling class in Britain against workers…


Virginia black lung meeting says cases are at 50-year high

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

ABINGDON, Va. — “It’s critically important to tell your stories,” Brandon Crum, a radiologist from Pikeville, Kentucky, told the more than 100 coal miners and others gathered at the National Black Lung Association meeting here Sept. 11. “We have momentum…


Defense of constitutional freedoms is key in the class struggle today

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
News conference March 17, 1988, announces victory for constitutional rights in SWP’s lawsuit against federal government for FBI spying. From left, SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, lead attorney Leonard Boudin, John Studer, director of the Political Rights Defense Fund.

The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. The excerpt is from the opening section…