Moscow targets workers and cities, Ukraine toilers stand tall, fight back

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026

Four and a half years since its invasion began, Moscow’s stalled ground war and murderous bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue daily, but are failing to break the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Its escalating campaign targets civilian populations in residential…


Special sale of books by Marx and Engels

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026

Pathfinder Press has launched a special sale of selected volumes of the collected writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, as well as the collected writings of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. The books are on sale for the special price…





Women’s liberation intertwined with working-class fight for power

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026
Literacy class for women in the Soviet Union in 1920s, in early years of the Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks mobilized working class to win universal literacy, advancing women’s equality.

Feminism and the Marxist Movement by Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Marxists have always explained that the economic roots of women’s oppression are an integral part of the workings of capitalism. Only the…


San Francisco hotel workers strike for new contract, wage increase

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026
Members of UNITE HERE Local 2 picket outside Hotel Spero in San Francisco Aug. 16, part of five-day strike for wage increases and to protest bosses slashing their paid days off.

SAN FRANCISCO — Fifteen spirited pickets from UNITE HERE Local 2 chanted and banged on pots Aug. 16 outside Hotel Spero here, concluding a five-day strike. The workers have been without a contract for four years. In March the hotel…


New Jersey rally: ‘Back independence for Puerto Rico!’

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026
New Jersey rally: ‘Back independence for Puerto Rico!’

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A lively march and rally demanding independence for Puerto Rico drew some 60 people to City Hall here Aug. 29. “Puerto Rico has been occupied illegally by the U.S. for 128 years,” Jason Cruz, president of…


US court upholds ‘Foreign Agents Registration’ law conviction

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026

In a blow to constitutional rights, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Florida Aug. 5 upheld the government’s use of the notorious Foreign Agents Registration Act, adopted in 1938 as part of the U.S. rulers’ drive to enter the second…


Maryland Teamsters out on strike at Verbal Beginnings

Vol. 90/No. 32 - September 14, 2026

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Nearly 100 striking Teamsters, members of Local 639, and their supporters, held a lively rally outside of Verbal Beginnings here Aug. 27. “Who are we?” shouted one striker, “Teamsters!” the pickets yelled back. Verbal Beginnings is a…