Protests: ‘End US blockade, war threats against Cuba!’

Actions win support from working people, unions
Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026
Cuba contingent in St. Paul July 4 parade, part of national protests. U.S. rulers are targeting Cuba, its defenders in the U.S. and crucial rights guaranteed in Constitution that workers need.

MINNEAPOLIS — As part of nationwide actions called by the National Network On Cuba to protest U.S. aggression against Cuba, the Minnesota Cuba Committee, Solidarity Committee on the Americas, the Socialist Workers Party and others carried out a week of…


Support Cargill meatpackers fighting boss lockout

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 455 members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here have been locked out by the company’s profit-drive bosses since May 20. The company has significant influence…


Locked-out oil refinery workers rally in Chicago

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Locked-out oil refinery workers rally in Chicago

CHICAGO — Roxanne Brown, international president of the United Steelworkers union, speaking above, led several hundred locked-out workers from the BP oil refinery and their supporters in a spirited picket and rally outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Chicago June…




Supreme Court OKs lawsuits demanding money from Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026

In a controversial 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held June 23 that a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil seeking more than $1 billion for property nationalized by Cuba can go forward. It follows another decision in late May allowing a…


Mass movement against Vietnam War changed US politics

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Nov. 15, 1969, demonstration in Washington against U.S. war in Vietnam. Some 750,000 demonstrators were joined by 250,000 in San Francisco for one of the largest political demonstrations in American history. Only the massive April 24, 1971, demonstration in Washington was larger.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June is Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement from the early 1960s…


Protest in New York: ‘US hands off Cuba!’

National Nurses union says No! to blockade
Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Jamie Brown, president of National Nurses United, speaking at June 30 press conference outside Capitol in Washington, D.C., calls for an end to the U.S. oil blockade of Cuba. Other speakers, from left, Bob Schwartz, executive director of Global Health Partners, and U.S. Representatives Jonathan Jackson and Pramila Jayapal.

Nat’l Nurses United union: ‘We will not remain silent!’ WASHINGTON — Setting an important example for the entire labor movement, National Nurses United — the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. — organized a press conference here June…


Marathon workers fight union-busting lockout

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026

MARTINEZ, Calif. — For over two months, 120 oil refinery workers at Marathon Renewables here, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, have been fighting serious attacks on their union and working conditions. In the latest blow, the company locked out…


Protests call for end to oil blockade, threats on Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Over 60 people picketed Federal Post Office in New York June 27 demanding “U.S. hands off Cuba!” in action called by Cuba Sí NY/NJ coalition. Similar protests are taking place elsewhere.

NEW YORK — Some 60 people protested outside the main federal post office in midtown Manhattan here June 27 to demand the U.S. government end its brutal economic blockade of Cuba. This was the third picket this year organized by…