Thugs attack Jewish-owned San Francisco cafe, twice

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

A small group of Jew-hating thugs attacked Manny’s, a café and community center in the Mission District of San Francisco, in the early evening June 9. The attack came as the café was hosting a meeting on San Francisco city…


State officials increase executions as opposition grows

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

On July 15 Michael Bernard Bell, 54, became the eighth death row inmate to be executed in Florida this year, and the 26th killed overall in the U.S. This already surpasses the 25 executions nationwide for all of last year.…


Putin sends released POWs back to the front to be killed

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

The savage character of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people today means not only deadly aerial attacks on their cities, but also a callous contempt for the lives and families of Russian workers and farmers in uniform.…


Netanyahu foes trample on rights as Israel fights Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

In the middle of a life-or-death war to defend Israel’s existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms — the only such refuge in a world where attacks on Jews are on the rise — Israel has been wracked by…


The Bolsheviks tore down czar’s ‘prison house of nations’

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led workers, peasants to power. In 1918-22, special trains reached the remotest regions and oppressed peoples offering education, culture to overcome mass illiteracy. Revolution championed the right of oppressed nations to self-determination.

Among Pathfinder’s July Books of the Month is The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? by Leon Trotsky. In October 1917 workers and peasants in Russia, led by V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, began…


Quebec Steelworkers at Rio Tinto strike over wages and vacations

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

SOREL-TRACY, Quebec — Some 180 United Steelworkers union members have been on strike against Rio Tinto’s iron and titanium operation here since July 10. They are fighting for better wages and against concessions the company demands on their vacations. The…


Health care workers strike over wages at HealthPartners clinic

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

STILLWATER, Minn. — Over 80 members of Service Employees International Union Minnesota & Iowa held a four-day strike here July 8-11 as they fight for a contract from HealthPartners SMG clinic. The strikers are licensed practical nurses, certified medical assistants…


Prime Minister Starmer: UK must be made to be ‘war ready’

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
As part of its growing preparations for new wars, London has ordered U.S.-made F-35A fighter-bombers, above, to give the U.K.’s imperialist rulers air-launched nuclear weapon capabilities.

LONDON — Looking to make the U.K.’s military “war ready,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a series of government moves to bolster its fighting capability June 2. The country faces a “more serious and immediate” threat than any time since…


IAM member Maximo Londonio wins his freedom!

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

In an important victory for the rights of immigrant workers and for the union movement, International Association of Machinists Local 695 member Maximo Londonio, with hand raised, was released July 11 from the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center…


Ukraine unions appeal for solidarity against Moscow attacks

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

The two major labor unions in Ukraine — the Federation of Trade Unions (FPU) and the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU) — issued a joint appeal July 7. It calls on the international labor movement to respond to Moscow’s…