Ottawa steps up attacks on rights of immigrant workers

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
More than 1,000 marchers in Montreal joined with actions across Quebec Feb. 7 protesting gov’t attacks on status of immigrant workers. Union contingents, banners marked the protests.

MONTREAL — Over the last year, the Liberal Canadian government of Mark Carney has proposed two new laws that attack the rights and conditions of immigrants, Bills C-2 and C-12. Bill C-2, introduced earlier, is named the Strong Borders Act.…


Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes break out into open warfare

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

Longstanding border clashes between Afghanistan’s governing Taliban forces and the Pakistani army escalated sharply Feb. 27, with Islamabad ordering airstrikes on Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and other areas. The conflict has had a devastating impact on working people, with hundreds dead…


March 8 protest for women’s rights in Ukraine

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
March 8 protest for women’s rights in Ukraine

Over 3,000 women marched through central Kyiv March 8 on International Women’s Day for the first time since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began four years ago. They rejected a proposed bill drawn up behind closed doors by Ukraine’s parliament…


Refinery workers fight for contract

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

MARTINEZ, Calif. — “Fair contract now!” demanded dozens of process operators and maintenance workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, who rallied in front of the Marathon biodiesel refinery here March 3. Criff Reyes, an operator and Marathon Local 5…


Largest nurses’ union in US condemns blockade of Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026

National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. with over 225,000, members released a statement Feb. 27 calling for an end to Washington’s blockade of Cuba. Excerpts are printed below. “The nurses call on the administration…


‘Women wanted to participate in what was a genuine revolution’

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026
Young girls from peasant families graduate from Ana Betancourt School in Havana, 1961. They learned to read and write, sew, and gained pride in themselves. Fidel Castro called for a mass literacy campaign, transforming the lives of the Cuban people, deeply impacting women.

To mark International Women’s Day, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution, by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela de los…


US out of the Middle East!

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026
Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.

The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. Working people in the United States, the Middle East, and the world over must oppose…


A working-class campaign against war

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026

The protests being organized against the so-called “US/Israel war” on Iran have been called by groups like the People’s Forum and Party for Socialism and Liberation, which are unabashed partisans of the Iranian regime and its “axis of resistance” allies…


After US assault, Tehran hits Israel, Arab regimes

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026
Damage from bombing on Tehran’s South Kargar street March 3. U.S. military struck targets in dozens of cities, as well as oil facilities and ports in the southern part of the country.

Washington’s massive military assault on Iran — a violation of the country’s national sovereignty — and Tehran’s drone and military counterattacks on U.S. bases, oil facilities in neighboring Arab countries and on Israel are having a devastating impact across the…