‘Cuban Book Day’ celebrates 1961 battle for literacy, reading

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
On the heels of the 1959 revolution, Cuba began mass production of books to advance culture, starting with Don Quixote. The 1961 literacy campaign ensured all Cubans could read.

In the midst of Washington’s stepped-up economic war aimed at strangling the Cuban people, “Cuban Book Day” was celebrated in Havana and several of the country’s provinces March 31. The events marked the founding of the country’s National Printing House…


Washington’s war on Iran sharpens imperialist rivalries around the world

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

As the crisis of capitalism deepens, conflicts between the competing ruling classes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere become ever sharper. Washington’s decision to go to war against Iran has exacerbated divisions between the U.S. rulers and the governments of…


Cincinnati BCTGM offers solidarity to JBS strikers

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

CINCINNATI — Workers at the Mars Kellanova plant here, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, are organizing solidarity with UFCW Local 7 meatpackers locked in a contract fight with JBS in Greeley, Colorado. Local 57…


Radical Reconstruction extended revolutionary gains of Civil War

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Freed slaves, enfranchised in 1870, ford a creek in Georgia, rifles in hand, on way to the polls. To exercise the right to vote during Radical Reconstruction, African Americans needed disciplined organization and self-defense.

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. The chapter, “Radical Reconstruction: Its conquests…


Get all US troops, bombers, warships out of the Mideast!

Washington seeks to dominate, plunder the region
Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Bridge under construction to link Tehran and Karaj, Iran, was heavily damaged in U.S. airstrike April 2. Washington threatened to destroy Iranian infrastructure, electric grid and bridges.

Shaky ceasefire agreed on, but fighting still continues Tehran and Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire April 7 just an hour before the deadline set by President Donald Trump. He threatened the U.S. military would bomb Iran’s electric power stations,…


Supreme Court hears case on birthright citizenship

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 1 on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order issued the first day of his second term, effectively overturning the section of the 14th Amendment that grants birthright citizenship to virtually…


Stakes for working people in fight to end Mideast war

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The shaky two-week ceasefire reached by Washington and Tehran April 7 is a further step along the course pursued by the U.S. rulers to impose a “Pax Americana” across the Middle East. The same thing was true of the shaky…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

April 16, 2001 HARTFORD, Conn. — “The Cuban people are carrying out many projects to advance our cultural level and develop higher human values,” Cuban youth leader Yanelis Martínez told a meeting at the University of Hartford here. Martínez and…


US hands off Cuba! End US economic war!

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026

The U.S. rulers are stepping up their six-decades-long assault on Cuba, in retaliation for working people, led by Fidel Castro, making a socialist revolution there and setting an example for toilers everywhere.  Washington is enforcing an oil blockade, threatening to…


Quebec Metro warehouse workers strike over jobs, wages, safety

Vol. 90/No. 15 - April 20, 2026
Members of United Grocers Workers Union at April 2 mass meeting in Montreal reject Metro supermarket bosses’ wage proposal of just 11% over six years. Sign reads, “We deserve more!”

MONTREAL — “We’re determined to fight to win a living wage, safe working conditions and livable work schedules,” Mathieu Gagnon, secretary of the United Grocers Workers Union and picket captain since the workers went on strike March 30, told the…