Algeria upholds 5-year sentence of Boualem Sansal

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

On July 1 an appeals court in Algeria upheld a harsh five-year jail sentence imposed on prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, a longtime and outspoken critic of Algerian government authoritarianism, Islamic fundamentalism and government attacks on freedom of expression.…


Thousands protest Moscow’s tyranny in the Altai region

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Thousands rallied in Gorno-Altaysk, capital of Altai Republic, June 21 against Moscow’s moves to abolish local village councils, attack rights of indigenous peoples there. Sign at right says, “Hands off Altai!” Sign in back says, “Let’s save the village for our children.”

In one of the largest expressions of social unrest since Moscow invaded Ukraine over three years ago, thousands rallied in Russia’s Altai Republic June 21 to protest Kremlin-organized “reforms” that end local self-government and attack the rights and cultural heritage…


New York meeting promotes effort to send pacemakers to Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

NEW YORK — At a June 28 program here, sponsored by the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, Bob Schwartz, executive director of Global Health Partners, announced a national effort to raise $150,000 to send 150 pacemakers to Cuba. The…


Karen Diamond dies, a victim of Jew-hating firebombing in Boulder

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

OAKLAND, Calif. — Karen Diamond was one of those severely burned in Boulder, Colorado, in a Jew-hating firebombing of a peaceful weekly Run for Their Lives vigil June 1 demanding the release of Israeli and other hostages held by Hamas…


Stalinist lies about Iran’s nuclear weapon program

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

Stalinist and other “left” groups in the U.S. and elsewhere that support the reactionary regime in Iran and its “axis of resistance” went into action in June to denounce Israel’s defensive strikes aimed at destroying Tehran’s capacity to build nuclear…


Back Ukraine fight for national sovereignty, defend the unions

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Drones, missiles hit Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, May 24. Moscow’s attacks consist of murderous bombing of civilians across the country. Despite assaults, Ukraine people resist courageously.

After seizing Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in Ukraine 11 years ago, and over three years since his full-scale invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to inflict as much pain as possible targeting Ukraine’s cities all…



Frame-ups, brutality: The norm for US cops under capitalism

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Cops fire on truck drivers’ picket during Teamsters Local 574 strike in Minneapolis in July 1934. Henry Ness and John Belor were killed in the ambush, 48 other pickets were wounded.

Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight Against the Korean War and McCarthyism by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Cannon, then Socialist Workers Party national secretary, was one of…


‘The SWP champions the fight for independence’

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky for the Socialist Workers Party to U.N. Special Committee hearing on the decolonization of Puerto Rico, June 16, 2025.  Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Joanne Kuniansky. I am speaking on behalf of the…