Quebec Molson brewery workers strike for wages and respect

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

MONTREAL — Over 400 workers at the Molson-Coors brewery and distribution center here went on strike March 25. Key issues are the bosses’ inadequate wage offer, where workers would actually lose ground to inflation, and the company’s demand to impose…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

May 5, 1997 STOCKHOLM — As Washington leads the imperialist drive to extend NATO into eastern and central Europe, the Swedish ruling class has become increasingly active in defending its imperialist interests in the Baltic region. Both the Social Democratic…


Marxism, historical materialism help arm working-class fighters

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
Depiction of peasant uprising in Germany, 1525. Leon Trotsky cites Frederick Engels’ The Peasant War in Germany, which explained this class conflict disguised as religious ideas against oppressive aristocratic landowners, as a “brilliant illustration” of Karl Marx’s materialist conception of history.

The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1928-29) by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The book documents the opposition led by Trotsky in the Soviet Communist Party to defend the proletarian and revolutionary internationalist…


Anticipation greets opening day of 30th Havana book fair

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
Volunteers setting up Pathfinder Press booth on eve of Havana International Book Fair.

HAVANA — After a two-year hiatus, the 30th Havana International Book Fair opened here April 20. Organizers have overcome big challenges to ensure it can take place: the impact of COVID, the world capitalist crisis and Washington’s intensified economic sanctions.…


Join in charting new course for working class

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

The bosses and their political parties — facing increasing cutthroat competition and conflict worldwide — are stepping up their assaults on working people at home and abroad. To defend their dog-eat-dog profit system, they’re driving to lower our living standards,…


Author of book on Attica fights ban by prison authorities

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

Well-known author Heather Ann Thompson is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for banning prisoners in the state from reading her award-winning book on the Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison…



In victory for Sankara’s legacy, court finds killers accountable

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
June 29, 2013, protest in Burkina Faso against dictatorial rule of Blaise Compaore, who had Thomas Sankara, pictured above, assassinated during October 1987 counterevolutionary coup. Compaore was toppled and forced to flee the country in 2014 by a popular insurrection.

Thirty-five years after a counterrevolutionary coup in 1987, a court in Burkina Faso, West Africa, rendered guilty verdicts April 6 after a six-month trial for the assassination of President Thomas Sankara, and 12 of his comrades and guards. Blaise Compaore,…