Hospitals sue patients over medical debts

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Lionel and Brenda White, in Charlotte, North Carolina, agreed to monthly payments on medical bills to put off threat of legal action. Whites said they feared losing their house. Bills totaled $50,529, more than each one earns in a year.

Hospitals, especially in rural areas, are increasingly filing suit against patients for unpaid medical bills that run into the tens of billions of dollars. Some 15 million people in the U.S. owe money to area hospitals, an example of the…



Why the SWP calls for a labor party

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

The impact of today’s economic, social and moral crisis of capitalism on tens of millions poses the need for workers to break from the Democrats and Republicans and all other capitalist parties and build a labor party based on the…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars, freedom of speech and the press are stepping up efforts to urge Florida prison officials to reverse their ban of Militant issue no. 17 at the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. Letters…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

June 14, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “We’re not veterans — we’re combatants,” Brig. Gen. Gustavo Chui affirmed. “As members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, we’re engaged in the day-to-day struggle for the unconditional defense of our…



Workers go on strike at Cargill’s beef-processing plant in Ontario

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

GUELPH, Ontario –— Hundreds of workers at the Cargill beef-processing plant here, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175, hit the picket line May 27 the day after an 82% vote against a proposed offer. Cargill’s Guelph plant…


Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Nine NATO powers, from U.S. and Europe, engage in joint military exercise in Poland, involving 20,000 troops with tanks and other armored vehicles, including crossing of Vistula River, above, March 4. Operation Dragon 24 was designed as a test response to attack by Moscow.

Rivalries, trade wars and the growing threat of more shooting wars are a reality across the capitalist world today. This future underscores the stakes for working people in organizing to take political power out of the capitalist rulers’ hands. Nowhere…


‘I stand for socialism, Cuba, independence for Puerto Rico’

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
March to U.S. Federal Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2006, protesting the FBI killing of Macheteros leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and FBI raids on homes of pro-independence fighters. For decades the Puerto Rican people have fought to get out from under Uncle Sam’s boot.

Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity by Rafael Cancel Miranda is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, will be representing the party, speaking before the U.N. commission on…