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…


Why our electric bills keep getting higher and higher

Vol. 89/No. 36 - October 13, 2025

Working-class families are facing skyrocketing utility bills all across the country as energy monopolies like Con Edison, backed by accommodating government authorities responsible for “regulating” them, are reaping hefty profits.  Electricity prices in August surged 31% higher than four years…


‘Cosmetics’ book introduced, discussed at Manila book fair

Vol. 89/No. 36 - October 13, 2025
Above, Sept. 13 panel presenting Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women. From left, Ron Poulsen, Sheila Estrera, Ana Maria “Princess” Nemenzo, Virginia Suarez and Katy LeRougetel. Book was Pathfinder’s highest seller at fair. Below, audience at book launch.

MANILA, Philippines — “Women are objectified and commodified. It is a culture that capitalists profit from,” said Virginia Suarez, a lawyer who specializes in women’s and workers’ rights. “When I read this book, I was enriched. Women have to break…


Montreal march demands justice after cops kill 15-year-old student

Vol. 89/No. 36 - October 13, 2025
Protest in Montreal Sept. 27 after cops shot Afghani immigrant youth Nooran Rezayi. “Cops ‘serve and protect’ private property, political rule of the bosses,” Communist League said.

MONTREAL — More than 1,000 people marched in a protest Sept. 27 in Longueuil, just south of Montreal, calling for “Justice for Nooran.” Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old boy whose family are Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by a cop…