Protests erupt in Morocco over jobs, health care and a future

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025
Mass protests erupted across Morocco over joblessness, poor health care and education. Above, young people protest in Casablanca Oct. 2, taking lead in the fight for a better future.

Protests over dire economic and social conditions, lack of jobs and little confidence in a better future facing working people, especially youth, have erupted throughout the North African country of Morocco. The demonstrations, which began Sept. 27, quickly spread to…


Over 1,000 protest killing of Jews at synagogue in Manchester

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

MANCHESTER, England — “We are not Jews trembling on our knees,” Raphi Bloom, a leader of the Jewish community here, told more than 1,000 people gathered in the city’s center Oct. 5 to protest the killing of two Jews, Adrian…


Paul Mailhot: ‘Workers need to take political power’

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

NEW YORK — “The working class is not getting what we need. Wages aren’t enough. Health care is going down the drain,” retired fireman Mike Morale told Paul Mailhot, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, Oct. 5. Mailhot was…



Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust

Trump’s ‘peace’ plan aims to push US imperialist interests
Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025
Miles respaldaron guerra defensiva de Israel contra Hamás, en Trafalgar Square, Londres, 5 de octubre, en aniversario de pogromo que masacró a judíos en Israel el 7 de octubre de 2023.

Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying out a new Holocaust today. Since President Donald Trump announced his 20-point “peace”…


Thousands mark Oct. 7 pogrom, in US, around the world

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

Thousands gathered across the U.S., in Israel and around the world Oct. 7 to mark the second anniversary of the deadly pogrom carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas and to demand the release of all the remaining hostages. Hamas thugs murdered…


Striking British Columbia public service workers win support

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Public service workers here represented by the B.C. General Employees’ Union are expanding their strike over wages and conditions, and winning widespread labor support. Over 5,000 strikers and their supporters marched and rallied in Victoria Oct. 6…


‘Authenticity and future of our revolution depend on women’

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025
Thomas Sankara, leader of 1983-87 popular revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, giving “The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women” speech, March 8, 1987.

Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso. He had been won to Marxism before…


Fight against Jew-hatred key to line of march of working class

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

Combating Jew-hatred and defending the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews is a dividing line among all those who claim to speak for the working class. That remains true today, as Washington tries to shut down…


Earthquake wreaks havoc on Cebu in Philippines

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A severe earthquake rocked the Philippines island province of Cebu Sept. 30. Its aftermath became a social catastrophe for tens of thousands of working people in the region. Two days after the 6.9-magnitude quake, the death…