Attacks on Arab bus drivers shows challenges in Israel

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

A spike in violence against bus drivers in Jerusalem sheds light on the challenges and the opportunities to overcome divisions in the working class and to strengthen the unions in Israel. There are several bus lines serving the Jerusalem area…


Stalin’s ‘Popular Front’ in France blocked workers taking power

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers occupy Renault auto plant in France, May 1936, part of wave of sit-down strikes that posed possibility for fight by workers to take power. Communist, Socialist parties in alliance with liberal capitalists in Popular Front government blocked the revolutionary upsurge.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) by Leon Trotsky. Growing class battles across Europe, from rising proletarian struggles in France to the Spanish Revolution, posed the need for workers…


Fight for workers control of production!

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

The exact cause of the deadly crash of a 34-year-old United Parcel Service cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 4 hasn’t yet been determined. But the deaths of 14 people were not “accidents.” Nor are the hundreds of other lives…


Ottawa urges longer jail time for convoy leaders

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

MONTREAL — The Canadian federal government is continuing its vindictive drive to railroad to prison Tamara Lich and trucker Chris Barber, spokespersons for the trucker-led 2022 Freedom Convoy outside Parliament. This was part of a fight to end government job-threatening…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

Solidarity in Cuba after Hurricane Melissa Hurricane Melissa crossed eastern Cuba Oct. 29 with sustained winds of 120 mph and torrential rains. No lives were lost, but agriculture was devastated and many thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed. As…



SWP points road forward as capitalist crisis deepens

Mamdani’s ‘municipal socialism’ no advance
Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
David Rosenfeld, left, SWP 2026 candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois and SMART-TD member, talks with striking Teamsters member Linne Boyd at Chicago Labor Day march.

Socialist Workers Party: ‘Workers need to take political power!’ The 2025 elections took place with workers having faced declining living standards under both Democratic and Republican administrations for years. At the same time, trade conflicts intensify and the threat of…



Washington: Hands off Venezuela and Cuba!

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
U.S. aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, world’s largest warship, entered Caribbean Nov. 11. Washington is deploying force of warboats, bombers, troops to assert U.S. rulers’ power.

The U.S. War Department announced Nov. 10 its forces attacked and sank two more boats, killing six people, off the shore of Venezuela, claiming they are targeting “narco-terrorists.” This brings the total to 76 people killed in 19 deadly attacks.…


Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers at the Safeway bread plant in Richmond, California, members of BCTGM Local 125, rally Oct. 5, part of fight for a new contract with a wage raise. Unionists were victorious.

RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers won wage gains of $4.95 an hour over four years, and the fight…