US gov’t threatens attacks on the sovereignty of Venezuela

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
U.S. politicians, media step up threats against Venezuela, calls for “regime change,” by force if necessary. Toilers line up for food, other necessities, in short supply from U.S. sanctions.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term Jan. 10 has heightened discussions in U.S. ruling-class circles about what Washington’s next moves on the country should be. In July, Maduro was declared the winner of a highly polarized…


18,000 Teamsters authorize strike in Costco contract fight

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Costco workers, members of the Warehouse Division of the Teamsters union, protested outside company headquarters Jan. 23 in Issaquah, Washington, to demand a new contract.

“Who are we? Teamsters. What do we want? A contract. When do we want it? Now. If we don’t get it? Shut them down,” shouted dozens of Costco workers, members of the Warehouse Division of the Teamsters union, at a…


Women workers keep Ukraine mines running as war continues

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Tetiana Medvedenko, left, and Iryna Ostanko, both union members at coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine. When men there volunteered for the army, for the first time women were hired.

As the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, murderous war against Ukraine approaches, more and more of the country’s men have been called on to defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand. This has meant substantially greater numbers of…


‘Jewish News’: SWP backs Israel’s fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

“Why the Socialist Workers Party is defying the far left on Israel,” is the headline of a Jan. 21 article by contributing editor Dan Pine in the Jewish News of Northern California. The paper, first published in 1895, reaches tens…



One-day strike by Kurds in Iran demands end to death penalty

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

A one-day strike shut down businesses and schools all across the Kurdish region of Iran Jan. 22, demanding the revocation of death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and Warisheh Moradi. These two Kurdish women are accused by Tehran of belonging to…


Sankara: ‘Semicolonial people’s foreign debt is unpayable’

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Fidel Castro welcomes Thomas Sankara in Havana Sept. 25, 1984. Sankara, a communist, looked to Castro’s Marxist leadership and the voluntary mobilizations of workers and peasants in Cuba’s socialist revolution as he led a popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso.

The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In 1983 Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta, bringing to power a…


For Israel’s defeat of Hamas, end to Tehran’s nuclear threat

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Rafael Hasid, Israeli owner of Miriam Restaurant in Brooklyn. He left up Jan. 25 antisemitic graffiti so that people can “see that things like that happen.” Tehran-backed Hamas war to destroy Israel has sparked rise in anti-Jewish violence worldwide, a deadly threat to all workers.

The unstable ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the release of more Israeli hostages, along with Israel’s freeing of hundreds of Hamas thugs ready to return to duty, does not resolve the key challenge facing the people of Israel —…


Israel, the Holocaust and Oct. 7 pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

The stakes for workers in the U.S., the Middle East and worldwide are enormous in backing Israel’s unfinished battle to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah once and for all, and to destroy the ability of the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

February 7, 2000 CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Cops in full riot gear attacked an early morning march to the waterfront by hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Jan. 20. Eight of the unionists are now facing frame-up charges…