Unions joining Ottawa, bosses in trade war ‘team’ is a deadly trap

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
After Ottawa used anti-labor laws to block three major union strikes, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada defied government back-to-work order Aug. 16, 2025, and won important gains.

MONTREAL — Canada’s ruling rich and their government in Ottawa are calling on workers and our unions to support and collaborate in their trade war with Washington. But this class-collaborationist course is a deadly threat to the labor movement and…


Minnesota small businesses petition state over losses during ICE raids

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
Zahra Abdalla, a founder of Neighbors United, speaks at news conference at state Capitol in St. Paul April 28 seeking relief from damages small-business owners suffered in ICE reign of terror.

MINNEAPOLIS — Neighbors United, set up by Somali small-business owners that now includes Latino, Hmong and African American vendors, held a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul April 28. The group turned in petitions signed by 1,000…


May Day appeal by Ukraine unions blasts Moscow’s war

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Frustrated by recent losses on the battlefield, Moscow is intensifying its missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, targeting homes, apartment buildings and workplaces, as well as energy, transportation and other civilian infrastructure. In a statement released for International Workers’…


Hundreds of thousands march in Cuba May 1

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
Hundreds of thousands march in Cuba May 1

Hundreds of thousands marched and rallied in Havana, above, May 1, International Workers’ Day, under the slogan “The Homeland must be defended.” Led by the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC), Cuba’s trade union federation, huge crowds of unionists, students…


Support oil refinery workers on strike at Marathon!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

MARTINEZ, Calif. — Workers walked off the job at Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s renewable fuels refinery here at 12:01 a.m. April 27. The company announced it was going to impose its “final” proposed contract on the 120 members of United Steelworkers…


Help take ‘Militant’ campaign over top!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

As we go into the final week of campaigning in the international 2026 spring drive, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are organizing to go over the top in…


Support Israel’s fight against Tehran, Hamas, Hezbollah

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Well before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Militant explained working people must oppose Jew-hatred and why. Hamas, backed by the reactionary regime in Tehran, slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel that day because they were Jewish or worked side by…


Workers and farmers in Cuba proved socialist revolution is possible

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
The Second Declaration of Havana, delivered by Fidel Castro, was adopted by mass assemblies of workers, peasants across Cuba. In Santiago de Cuba, above, 100,000 marched Feb. 10, 1962.

The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas adopted by the Cuban people is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Between the 1960 and 1962 declarations, both given by Fidel Castro…


US hands off Cuba! Defend Cuban sovereignty!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Protests are needed now in the U.S. and worldwide against suffocating new sanctions Washington has imposed on Cuba, and to demand an immediate end to the U.S. rulers’ oil blockade. These new measures intensify Washington’s relentless economic and political war…