FBI uses informers, entrapment to bring kidnap charges in Michigan

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022
Thousands paid their respects at home of Black Panther Party chair Fred Hampton after he and Mark Clark were set up by FBI informants and killed there by Chicago cops, Dec. 4, 1969. Entrapment by FBI in Michigan case continues frame-up methods used against working people.

At least 12 FBI informants and three FBI agents worked together to egg on and entrap 14 men, and then frame them up for supposedly plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Party Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in late 2020. In September 2020…


Malcolm X: ‘We’re living at a time of worldwide revolution’

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Malcolm X emerged as an outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation. An intransigent opponent of the U.S. government and its imperialist policies,…


Sacramento protest says, ‘Free Carlos Harris!’

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three dozen people rallied in a Martin Luther King Day protest Jan. 17 across the street from the state Capitol building here demanding that Carlos Harris and other unjustly incarcerated prisoners be released. “My cousin Carlos has…


US, NATO out of Eastern Europe!

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

President Joseph Biden says his threats to sanction and punish Russia, and the deployment of more warships and bombers by NATO to eastern Europe, are to defend “American interests” against Moscow’s threats to Ukraine.  What the government calls “American interests”…


Protest in Tunisia demands jobs, political rights

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

Defying a government ban on indoor and outdoor gatherings, more than 1,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis, Jan. 14 to protest rising joblessness, inflation and attacks on political rights. The date marks the 11th anniversary since…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

February 10, 1997 The decision by New York state officials to release a list of 17 names, addresses, photos, and descriptions of people who were convicted of sex crimes marks an attack on the democratic rights of working people. It…


Texas refinery workers fight ExxonMobil union busting

Locked-out oil workers fight to defend safety, their union
Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022
Dec. 6, 2021, protest in Houston by ExxonMobil workers. Bosses locked them out May 1, pushed move to decertify union when workers refused to accept dangerous cutbacks.

FORT WORTH, Texas — For nine months now 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have fought oil giant ExxonMobil bosses’ attempts to break their union. The company marched the workers out of the giant refinery and oil blending facility…


Letters

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022

NATO, US troops out now! Norway shares a northern border with Russia and has a long coastline that is vital to Russia’s naval access to the Atlantic. Russia sends heavy bombers along the coast on a regular basis to assert…


After 10-day strike, Colorado grocery workers make gains

Vol. 86/No. 5 - February 7, 2022
UFCW members strike King Soopers, Federal Heights, Colorado, Jan. 17. Workers won pay raise, better conditions.

DENVER — After a solid and lively 10-day strike against King Soopers grocery-store bosses by 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members from Boulder to Parker, Colorado,  and the greater metro area here, a majority voted in big…