‘Sutures Saves Lives’ helps to improve health care in Cuba!

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026
Global Health Partners Director Bob Schwartz, left, visits Calixto García Hospital in Havana in November 2023. GHP is helping raise $75,000 to send surgical sutures to Cuba.

The “Sutures Saves Lives” campaign has a goal of raising $75,000 to send 60,000 medical sutures to Cuba by mid-February. The effort is jointly organized by Global Health Partners and the Saving Lives Campaign. Over 31 years, GHP has sent…


Stalinist Popular Front led to defeat of revolution in Spain

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026
Spanish workers’ militia in 1930’s. Workers and farmers struggle against fascist forces of Franco was sabotaged by Stalinist bloc with capitalist parties. “Audacious social reforms are strongest weapon in civil war,” Trotsky said.

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The Spanish Revolution was an uprising by workers and peasants against Gen. Francisco Franco’s 1936 military coup, backed by landlords and capitalists.…


‘Project 25 for 25,’ free books for youth in Latin America

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the beginning of the “Project 25 for 25” Dec. 17, what will be the free distribution of 2.5 million books to young people aged 15 to 30 across Latin America. Simultaneously, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel…


Letters

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

Nissen Huts When we visited Cyprus, we went to the Jewish Museum, where the exhibit — “The Nissen Hut” — shows a tin hut and a small reproduction of the detention camps the British Army used to house the thousands of…


Pathfinder titles sell well at Middle East Studies conference

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

WASHINGTON — Pathfinder Press was one of over 50 publishers, bookstores and vendors at the Middle Eastern Studies Association conference here Nov. 22-25. Some 1,900 academics, authors and others took part in over 300 workshops and panel discussions. Topics included…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 2 - January 19, 2026

January 15, 2001 DES MOINES, Iowa — In a victory for working people, workers at the ConAgra sausage processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska, voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. This is the second union victory in…



Workers face growing economic crisis as bosses go all-in for AI

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026
Speculators are putting massive amounts of capital into building huge AI data centers, consuming large amounts of power. So little housing for workers is built, and our electric bills soar.

“U.S. economy grows at fastest pace in two years,” the BBC headlined a year-end report Dec. 23. Forbes followed suit, with a Dec. 28 article, “Strong GDP And Rising Profits Set Up A Resilient US Economy for 2026.” President Donald…


Socialist Workers Party campaigns against Jew-hatred

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026

Since the Jew-hating massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 14, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have stepped up their campaigning, explaining the stakes for the labor movement…


NZ march protests Jew-hating massacre in Australia

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Four hundred people rallied and marched here Dec. 21 against the massacre one week earlier of Jews celebrating the first day of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Speakers condemned the rise in Jew-hatred and…