Moscow bombs Ukraine miners, uses its troops as cannon fodder

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Toll on workers, oppressed nationalities in uniform in Russian army since all-out invasion by Moscow began Feb. 24, 2022. Casualties now regularly outstrip recruitment efforts.

Ukrainian working people are determined to continue fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty, despite Moscow’s airstrikes causing blackouts in cities across Ukraine during the depths of winter. Four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest, Moscow…


US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s oil blockade

NY conference to defend Cuba features Cuban ambassador
Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Seattle picket March 15 demands U.S. hands off Cuba! Actions against Washington’s escalating economic war on Cuba’s socialist revolution have taken place across country, around world.

NEW YORK — What is the “Cuba problem,” as the Donald Trump administration calls it, that Washington has sought to destroy for more than six decades? “It’s the example that the Cuban Revolution represents for many in the world,” said…


Beijing moves to impose ‘Chinese culture’ on all peoples

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

China’s National People’s Congress, a rubber-stamp for President Xi Jinping, passed sweeping legislation March 12 that further attacks the rights of tens of millions of the country’s residents. It mandates Mandarin as the primary language in schools and official communications…


Stop US rulers’ assault on Cuba! Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

Working people should oppose every assault by Washington on the sovereign rights of other nations, regardless of the character of their governments, from the reactionary regime in Iran to the revolutionary government of Cuba. The U.S. rulers’ blockade and threats…


High school students in Illinois protest ICE raids, deportations

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — A spirited student walkout at East Maine High School here drew some 100 participants March 3. Many held homemade signs as they marched through the neighborhood to protest immigration raids and deportations. Some participated in their…


SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

PITTSBURGH — Tony Lane, Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, speaking, and Sergio Zambrana, SWP candidate for Congress in the 12th District, formally kicked off their campaigns here March 7, at a meeting in the party’s new…


You have to learn what fascism is in order to fight it and win

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
Mounted police block 50,000 workers at rally, called by Socialist Workers Party, protesting Nazi meeting at Madison Square Garden in New York, Feb. 20, 1939. Working class needs to advance struggle for power, including the defeat of fascist violence against Jews, unions.

Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The excerpt is from the section “Capitalism and fascism”…


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

Stop Washington’s assault on the sovereignty of Iran
Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
Cruise missiles launched from U.S. warship against targets in Iran Feb. 28. Washington says its massive bombardment hit over 5,500 sites, including 60 Iranian warships by March 11.

Washington’s actions make clear that its massive use of air and naval power against Iran has nothing to do with aiding the peoples of that country nor defending Israel as a refuge for Jews and has everything to do with…


US war and the imperialist world disorder

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

Washington’s devastating bombardment of Iran is aimed at restoring stability for the U.S. rulers to plunder the Middle East. They’re unleashing unmatched U.S. air and naval power, believing they can impose their domination in the region with no unintended consequences;…