25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

February 19, 2001 For decades the British government has sought to cover up its responsibility for the 1972 killing of the civil rights marchers in Derry who were shot down in cold blood by British troops. London hoped this murderous…


Spanish rail workers make gains in nationwide strike over safety

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s Union (SEMAF) ended a three-day nationwide strike early on Feb. 11 after reaching an agreement with the government over safety as well as other measures. The strike followed a series of train crashes. They…


Strike shuts down commuter trains in Germany

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

Some 100,000 transportation workers walked off the job in Germany Feb. 2, bringing subway trains, buses and trams across the country to a halt in one of the largest labor actions they’ve carried out there in years. The 24-hour strike…


BBC covers Communist League election campaign in UK

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

The article below by Paul Burnell was published on the BBC North West online edition Feb. 4, reporting the Communist League is running Hugo Wils in the by-election in the Gorton and Denton constituency in Manchester, England. A trade unionist…


Moscow assault on light, heat in Ukraine fuels toilers’ resistance

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
People dance at sunset on frozen Kyiv Sea reservoir on Dnipro River in Ukraine Feb. 1. Working people refuse to be intimidated despite Moscow’s airstrikes on country’s electrical infrastructure causing widespread power and heating outages in middle of the winter.

Four years into its invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has intensified its bombardment of energy generation facilities to deny heat, water and electricity to punish and attempt to demoralize Ukraine’s civilian population. But this has just fortified…



US HANDS OFF CUBA!
END WASHINGTON’S ECONOMIC BLOCKADE!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. There’s a pressing need today for a call to action by working people to oppose…



US workers face fewer jobs, high prices and tough times to come

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The capitalist economic crisis continues to weigh heavily on the backs of working people despite upbeat reports from the White House and the business sections of the boss press.  It is true the capitalist rulers and their upper-middle-class hangers-on are…


Malcolm X aimed to wake people up to their own ‘self-worth’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Malcolm X spoke to thousands at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Feb. 3, 1965. Then SNCC Black rights fighters took the revolutionary leader to speak in Selma, where a sharp battle was raging.

To mark Black History Month, Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February features Malcolm X on Afro-American History by the most outstanding leader of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. The book contains speeches and other selections from Malcolm…