Another bakery worker’s death

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…



Capitalist crisis stokes inflation, as bosses rake in record profits

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

In recent weeks U.S. bosses have been posting record profits, 35% above the year before. “The numbers are in” an article in Bloomberg boasts, “2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950.” While working people struggle to…


15,000 construction workers strike in Ontario, in fight for wage increase

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Over 15,000 Ontario construction workers went on strike May 1, paralyzing the high- and low-rise home-building industry across the Canadian province. The central issue is the need for adequate wage increases to deal with the impact of skyrocketing inflation on…




Cuban people, gov’t respond to hotel disaster in Havana

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Members of well-known Havana baseball team, Industriales, left, gather May 6 along with other Cubans to donate blood shortly after devastating explosion at Hotel Saratoga.

HAVANA — As rescue brigades arrived rapidly at the scene of a deadly gas explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, dozens of local residents had already joined in aiding and evacuating others to safety amid the billowing smoke and dust. Forty-two…


Moscow out of Ukraine now! Defend Ukraine independence!

For solidarity of workers in Ukraine, Russia against Putin’s war
Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Familiares de soldados ucranianos atrapados en planta de acero en Mariúpol por fuerzas rusas protestan en Cherkasy, exigen su evacuación tras meses de resistencia a invasión, 6 de mayo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his speech at the annual May 9 display of military force in Moscow on the anniversary of the defeat of Germany in the Second World War. He didn’t admit the defeats that Russian forces have…


How CIO unions fought racist discrimination in World War II

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
1942 rally organized in New York by March on Washington Movement demands an end to racist discrimination in the armed forces and the country’s war industries, as well as denouncing the lynching of framed-up Black sharecropper Odell Waller in Virginia.

Below is an excerpt from Fighting Racism in World War II: From the Pages of the ‘Militant,’ one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It provides a week-by-week account of struggles against discrimination and lynch-mob terror from 1939…


‘Militant’ builds opposition to Moscow’s war, wins readers

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

The stakes for working people in defeating Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine are at the center of discussions Socialist Workers Party members and supporters are having as they head into the final days of the international drive to win new readers…