Amnesty now! No more deportations!

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

The U.S. government is taking measures to eliminate federal programs that could lead to deportation of more than a million immigrant workers and youth, many who have lived in the U.S. for decades. Over the last couple months, the Department…


Bitcoin speculation is driven by capitalist economic crisis

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

For millions of working people forced to live paycheck to paycheck, the speculative mania gripping capitalist investors and middle-class wannabes scurrying to trade in bitcoins today is something out of another world. Accelerating bitcoin sales, and the recent opening of…


Fight in Chicago to overturn cop frame-ups makes gains

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

CHICAGO — Two more frame-ups perpetrated by former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara unraveled in court here Dec. 21 when Cook County prosecutors dropped charges against Gabriel Solache and Arturo Reyes in a 1998 double homicide. Solache, 43, and Reyes,…


North, South Korea hold talks as US sanctions press DPRK

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

For the first time since 2015, representatives of the North and South Korean governments met at the border village of Panmunjom Jan. 9, and “agreed to actively collaborate for the success” of the Winter Olympics taking place in South Korea…


Workers use bosses’ ‘blood money’ to build SWP

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

“They give us this money to make us feel happy for one week,” a co-worker at a bag factory in upstate New York told Alonso Hernández after their boss doled out a small Christmas bonus. Hernández and Emily Barnett, another…


Washington threatens to deport 200,000 Salvadorans

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018
Washington threatens to deport 200,000 Salvadorans

“We are here because of the misfortunes that the rulers of the United States have caused in our country,” Sara Ramírez, an organizer for Casa Maryland, told protesters in front of the White House Jan. 8, after the U.S. government…


Ukraine miners’ union leads fight for pay rise, faces attacks

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

Tens of thousands of iron ore miners and steelworkers toil in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih in the center of Ukraine, working for ArcelorMittal, Evraz and other companies. For years they have fought to build and strengthen independent unions…


Cuba’s response to hurricanes: ‘No one is abandoned’

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

HAVANA — During the Dec. 18-20 events here on the 40th anniversary of the Miami-based Antonio Maceo Brigade, delegates heard a special presentation on revolutionary Cuba’s response to Hurricane Irma. Col. Luis Angel Macareño, second in command of Cuba’s Civil…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

January 22, 1993 CARDIFF, Wales — Amid jubilation by their supporters, three men framed up nearly five years ago, known as the Cardiff Three, were freed December 10 by the Court of Appeal in London. The three — Tony Paris,…


Activities in Cuba pay tribute to Antonio Maceo Brigade

‘It’s a big lie that all Cubans in the United States are opposed to the revolution’
Vol. 82/No. 3 - January 22, 2018

HAVANA — “Today we are celebrating 40 years of continuous activity” defending the Cuban Revolution in the United States, said Andrés Gómez, national coordinator of the Antonio Maceo Brigade. He was speaking at a Dec. 19 event here honoring the…