Castro: ‘Building socialism is the work of free men and women’

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Millions of Cubans mobilized May 17, 1980, to defend their socialist revolution against mounting sanctions, war threats by U.S. rulers as struggles spread across Latin America, Caribbean. “The enemy had to be taught that he couldn’t mess with the revolution,” Fidel Castro said.

Cuba’s Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80, by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Castro was the central leader of the Rebel Army, victorious 1959 popular insurrection and the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Excerpted…


SWP offers road toward workers power

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025

The Socialist Workers Party is running a national slate of candidates for office, joining union struggles, defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jews and fighting to unify the working class, as it presents a working-class road…


Philadelphia acts to restrict city workers pickets

Vol. 89/No. 24 - July 14, 2025
Striking city workers, members of AFSCME, in Philadelphia July 2, face moves by Mayor Cherelle Parker to use courts to restrict picket lines, weaken strike.

PHILADELPHIA — Some 10,000 city workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, walked off the job July 1. The union represents sanitation workers, 911 emergency call center dispatchers, library assistants, as well…


SWP campaigns in working class, defends Israel as a refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Kevin Dwire, SWP candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, talks with former Teamster member and truck driver Amina Ali while campaigning on doorsteps there. Supporters will kick off effort June 28 to win 750 people to put SWP on the ballot, invite them to join the campaign.

Minutes after hearing the White House had sent B-2 aircraft to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities June 21, Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, told a Militant Labor Forum there that the SWP backs Israel’s fight to…


Striking cannery workers in rural Illinois win support

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025
Members of BCTGM Local 1, on picket line at Teasdale Latin Foods in Hoopeston, Illinois, have support of Teamsters, community in their fight for work schedule that allows family life.

HOOPESTON, Ill. — Since the beginning of June, some 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 at the Teasdale Latin Foods canning plant here have been on strike. Solidarity from fellow workers and unions in…


Trump restricts travel from Cuba, 12 other countries

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

President Donald Trump issued an executive order that took effect June 9 banning residents of 12 countries from entering the United States and placing harsh visa restrictions on those from another seven, including Cuba, along with Venezuela, Burundi, Laos, Sierra…


Teamster drivers at SFO airport make gains in 62-day strike

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — After 62 days on strike, Teamsters drivers and helpers at the airline catering company Flying Food Group here at San Francisco International Airport returned to work with a significant pay raise and a year of…


DHL workers in Canada strike over wages, conditions

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

MONTREAL — DHL Express Canada, an international package delivery company based in Germany, locked out its 2,100 workers across Canada June 8. Workers voted down the bosses’ contract offer by 97% in May. The central issues are winning wage increases…


Oakland hospital workers strike against attack on union

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 1,300 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers at University of California San Francisco-run Benioff Children’s Hospital went out on strike June 18 against bosses’ moves to bust their union. The NUHW represents clinic workers,…


Drop charges against Abrego Garcia, release him now!

Vol. 89/No. 23 - July 7, 2025

After beating back a three-month, U.S. government-led effort to bury him in jail in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. June 6. He was immediately thrown in jail in Nashville, Tennessee, held without bond, and allowed…