New York protest Feb. 24 backing fight to defend Ukrainian sovereignty after third year of Moscow’s invasion. Inset, Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, at the rally.
Paul Mailhot, SWP candidate for mayor of NY:

‘Workers need our own party, a party of labor’

NEW YORK — At a spirited meeting here Feb. 23, the Socialist Workers Party launched its campaign for mayor, announcing Paul Mailhot as its candidate. Mailhot is the organizer of the SWP’s New York City branch. The launching capped a…


Protests: ‘End Moscow’s war, back Ukraine sovereignty!’

Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C., above, Feb. 22, and in over 700 cities in U.S. and around the world in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty three years after Moscow’s invasion.

WASHINGTON — Some 3,000 defenders of Ukraine’s sovereignty rallied here two days before the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, bloody invasion and attempt to conquer Ukraine. Similar events were held around the world, including in Russia. Participants came…


Hamas savagery shows need to defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Hamas parades coffins of dead Israeli hostages Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, Feb. 20 in Khan Younis, Gaza, before returning bodies to Israel. Caskets say “Date of arrest” Oct. 7. Banner on stage threatens “Al-Aqsa flood was our promise” to launch more pogroms killing Jews.

Hamas’ use of cruelly choreographed hostage release ceremonies — where hostages who have been tortured and starved for over a year are forced to thank their captors for their “good treatment” — show the Jew-hating, anti-working-class character of the Nazi-like…




Fight prison ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida, Phoenix

Two Militant subscribers who are prisoners at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida, notified the Militant that issue no. 2, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been impounded there. But a closer read of the impoundment notice shows prison…

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Cuba’s aid to Africa liberation fight is theme of Havana book fair

Hundreds of Cuban military cadets, above, attended Feb. 15 presentation of book, The Unstoppable One, about Gen. Ramón Espinosa, a hero of Cuba’s internationalist mission in Angola that defeated apartheid invasion. Right, Víctor Dreke a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and Cuba’s missions in Africa, speaks at “Africa in Our Veins” event at book fair the day before. Dreke cited Fidel Castro, who always said that “to be an internationalist is to pay our debt to humanity.”

      HAVANA — The Cuban Revolution’s decadeslong history of aiding freedom struggles in Africa is a central theme of this year’s Havana International Book Fair. Several featured book presentations have addressed this internationalist record, and South Africa is…







Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.