Springfield rally: ‘Defend TPS protection for Haitians!’

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — One hundred and fifty people turned out here in sweltering heat July 3 to protest the U.S. Supreme Court decision granting the federal government permission to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants and to call instead…


Quebec forum panel discusses new book on Cuba and Africa

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Montreal event June 28 on French edition of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde by Víctor Dreke. Panel from right: Idris Diallo, National Front for Defense of the Constitution; Katy LeRougetel, Communist League; Michel Prairie, chair.

MONTREAL — Thirty-four people attended a special June 28 Militant Labor Forum here to celebrate the publication in French of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa by…


Locked-out BP oil workers’ fight wins new support

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Locked-out BP oil workers’ fight wins new support

WHITING, Ind. — Close to 200 locked-out BP oil refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1, and their families and supporters formed a contingent and marched in the July 4 parade here. Whiting is a working-class town and they…


Sconza Chocolate workers rally against bosses’ cutback demands

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

OAKDALE, Calif. — As part of their fight for a better contract, some 50 Sconza Chocolate factory workers rallied here June 27 backed by family members and other supporters. The rally was organized by their union, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…


Chisago County workers strike enters its third month

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 170 workers in Chisago County Health and Human Services and its government center have been on strike since May in a fight over wages and health insurance.  “The county healthcare plan has a family deductible…


Haifa conference-goers visit British detention center for Jews

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Haifa conference-goers visit British detention center for Jews

ATLIT, Israel — Jonathan Silberman and Ólöf Andra Proppé, members of the Communist League in the U.K., Bob Aiken from the CL in Australia, and Lea Sherman and Rachele Fruit from the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. toured the Atlit…


Baltimore nurses hold 24-hour strike over lack of safe staffing

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital held a 24-hour strike here starting 7 a.m. July 6 to protest the hospital bosses’ refusal to deal with patient safety and chronic understaffing that leads to nurses seeking other jobs.  There…


Communist League candidate wins support in Montreal

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Communist League candidate wins support in Montreal

MONTREAL — Joe Young, left, the Communist League candidate in the St. Laurent district for next October’s provincial election, campaigned door to door here June 24.  Supporters of Young’s campaign are gathering the 100 signatures needed to get him on…


Castro: ‘Victory depends on moral values, not weapons’

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Doctor (right) treats mercenary captured at Bay of Pigs, Cuba, April 1961. No wounded soldiers were left without medical care, just like the Cuban defenders — a matter of principle.

The Spanish edition of  Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The selection, “For revolutionaries victory in war depends on…


What does today’s Mamdani hysteria mean for the working class?

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

Bourgeois newspapers everywhere have generated stories about the narrow victories of two members of the Democratic Socialists of America, along with a former member, in Democratic Party primary elections in New York City June 23. All were endorsed by DSA…