Support C&H workers strike to stop bosses’ takebacks

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

CROCKETT, Calif. — C&H Sugar bosses have stepped up their attack on the three-week-old strike by 91 warehouse workers at its plant here, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6. On July 2 C&H moved the Tai Herald,…


How egg monopoly bosses jacked-up prices

Vol. 90/No. 25 - July 20, 2026

Egg prices surged to unheard of heights over the past several years. The bosses of the giant egg company monopolies blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu. But what was really behind the price hikes was the monopolies combined…




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…


US, Tehran seek Mideast deal as Israel defends its very existence

Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Underground Hezbollah drone factory found by Israeli soldiers June 18 in southern Lebanon.

After another round of drone and airstrikes and counterstrikes, the U.S. and Iranian governments sent representatives to Qatar to seek negotiations June 30. Having dealt big blows to Tehran’s military in repeated missile and drone attacks beginning in February, the…