New US tariffs aimed at slowing rising power of rival Beijing

Vol. 83/No. 30 - August 19, 2019

President Donald Trump threatened to impose 10% tariffs on $300 billion of imports from China next month after trade talks in Shanghai failed to reach any agreement between the U.S. and Chinese governments. The deepening trade dispute triggered a sell-off…


Press group says end ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Vol. 83/No. 30 - August 19, 2019

The Florida Press Association has joined the fight to halt the censorship of the Militant  by Florida prison officials, who have impounded 10 issues of the paper since April. The association represents most newspapers in the state.  The banned issues…


Cuba gov’t refutes US slanders of internationalist volunteers

Vol. 83/No. 30 - August 19, 2019
Forty volunteer health care workers from Cuba’s Henry Reeve brigade, who spent two months in Mozambique earlier this year, performed as many as 11 surgeries a day.

Hoping to stain the image of the Cuban Revolution, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slandered Cuba’s international medical assistance program, saying it engages in “exploitative and coercive labor practices” towards its volunteer doctors. Pompeo announced July 26 that the State…


Colonial rule, capitalist crisis fueled Puerto Rico protests

‘Cancel the debt! It’s their debt, not ours!’
Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

No matter who takes the place of Ricardo Rosselló as governor of the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico at 5 p.m. Aug. 2, the political, social and economic crisis there will continue. And so will opposition to the colonial regime’s…


Airline, auto bosses target workers to boost profits

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

As competition for markets among bosses in airline, auto and other industries continues to sharpen, company chiefs say they are looking to “cut labor costs,” targeting workers for concessions and weakening union rights. Contract talks opened in mid-July between the…


‘Amnesty for immigrants is in interest of all workers’

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

“The capitalists need to keep millions of immigrant workers here who are undocumented, so they can superexploit them,” Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 2016, told Richard Maya, a customer service worker as she was campaigning door…


‘Cuban people will resist US embargo and violations of our sovereignty’

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

NEW YORK — “The Cuban people are determined to withstand the U.S. government’s policy of aggression,” said Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Cuban deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, at a July 27 meeting here to celebrate the Cuban Revolution.…


Democrats’ Mueller exposé falls flat as clashes in party sharpen

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

The political crisis wracking the Democratic Party has continued to deepen since former special counsel Robert Mueller delivered testimony before the House Judiciary Committee July 24 that revealed nothing new. The likelihood of liberals being able to overturn the 2016…


Joyce Meissenheimer was ‘on right side of history’

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019
Joyce Meissenheimer speaks at 1980 British Columbia New Democratic Party convention, wearing button defending Pratt Three, three women workers fired by Pratt & Whitney aerospace factory after Canadian rulers’ political police told bosses they were communists.

MONTREAL — “Joyce Meissenheimer had so much confidence that she and those she fought alongside were on the right side of history,” explained Communist League leader Beverly Bernardo at a July 20 celebration of the life of Meissenheimer, a 54-year…


US gov’t plans to restart death penalty, target workers

Vol. 83/No. 29 - August 12, 2019

Attorney General William Barr announced July 25 that the U.S. government will resume carrying out executions, reversing a de facto moratorium that has been in place for 16 years. This takes place in the face of declining public support nationwide…