Car caravans demand: ‘End US embargo against Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021
Participants from Las Tunas, Cuba, join worldwide April 25 caravans against the U.S. embargo.

Opponents of Washington’s over 60-year economic war against Cuba joined car caravans and rallies in at least 20 U.S. cities, and in Canada, the U.K. and other countries April 25. They demanded: End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

May 13, 1996 HAVANA — More than one million workers, students, members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, and others marched here on May Day. Actions took place in every provincial capital and other cities. Pedro Ross, general secretary of the…


Kitty Cone obituary

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

The New York Times published what it called an “Overlooked obituary” of Kitty Cone March 26. These are obits of individuals who the Times did not mention at the time of their passing. Kitty Cone died in 2015. Cone was…


Cuba and the Coming American Revolution

Socialist Workers Party meeting discusses road to building revolutionary party in the US
Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

CHICAGO — “Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at…


UK gov’t halts effort to open coal mine, create jobs

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

WHITEHAVEN, England — “People from outside the area say Sellafield is unsafe and coal is bad for the environment, but it’s an issue of jobs,” Patrick Stamper, a former scaffolder at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site, told Peter Clifford, the…



Celebration of life of Steven Taylor, killed by cop in Walmart

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Two hundred people joined a rally here April 18 to commemorate the life of Steven Taylor one year after he was killed by San Leandro police. He was shot inside the Walmart store on Hesperian Boulevard…


‘We will not back down,’ 2,900 striking autoworkers tell Volvo

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

DUBLIN, Va. — “Beep, beep. Volvo’s cheap!” chanted striking autoworkers picketing Volvo Truck North America’s New River Valley assembly plant here April 27. Some 2,900 members of United Auto Workers Local 2069 voted by 96.8% to go on strike April…


Help expand the reach of the ‘Militant,’ SWP 2021 campaign!

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

The nine-week international drive to sell 1,400 subscriptions to the Militant, 1,400 books on working-class politics and raise $145,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund has begun. The drive will advance the campaigns of the 20 Socialist Workers Party candidates for state…


Chauvin trial dealt blows to rights workers need

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

The following are excerpts from remarks by Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, addressing how a working-class movement against cop brutality can be built and the recent blows against constitutional rights registered in the trial and…