‘Protest US rulers’ economic war on the Cuban people’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

MIAMI — Thirty-five people joined a Miami Caravan action here Oct. 1, setting up a lively and highly visible vigil in the pouring rain at the Miami International Airport to demand an end to Washington’s embargo against Cuba and removal…


Kaiser hospital workers demand: ‘Hire more staff! Raise our pay!’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Over 75,000 Kaiser hospital workers carried out a three-day strike Oct. 4-6 in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Kaiser workers in Virginia and the District of Columbia went out for one day. The central issues are the…


Movie depicts how US-backed terrorists blew up Cuban plane

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
At Colón Cemetery in Havana, Oct. 6, 2015, Cubans mark 39th anniversary of destruction of Cubana Flight 455, blown up by opponents of Cuba’s socialist revolution, killing 73 people.

“Cubana 455: Chronicles of October 6,” a three-part documentary and epilogue written and directed by Enrique Berumen  BY BERNIE SENTER On Oct. 6, 1976, U.S.-backed enemies of Cuba’s socialist revolution detonated two bombs on Cubana airlines Flight 455. All 73…


Fidel: ‘We will build a homeland ever more revolutionary’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Nine days after the bombing of Cubana airlines Flight 455, a million Cubans converged on Revolution Square in Havana. Below are excerpts from the speech Fidel Castro gave on Oct. 15, 1976. In parts of the speech not included here,…


Life expectancy continues to fall, workers face health crisis

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Declining life expectancy in the U.S. — now at its lowest point in over 25 years — is a product of the deepening social and moral crisis of capitalism today. Working people find themselves unable to afford decent medical treatment…


UK rail workers fight for pay, win fired worker’s job back

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Workers employed by contractors for rail companies around the country are finding ways to fight for equal pay,  improved conditions and union rights. This occurs as workers at rail companies, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport…


LA hotel workers fight for contract

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Some three dozen striking hotel workers, beating drums and plastic buckets and blowing on vuvuzelas, picketed the Westin hotel near the Los Angeles airport Oct. 7. They were protesting the latest contract offer from the bosses, an…


Hamas in its own words: ‘Kill the Jews’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Hamas claims charges that its program is based on Jew-hatred are a slander. So that our readers can judge for themselves we reproduce below quotes from the 1988 Hamas covenant, which the group has never repudiated, and is in its…


Fidel Castro: ‘Without doubt, Israel has right to exist’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010.

Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of…


Minnesota prisoners protest conditions

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. — “They should shut it down if they can’t handle it,” Ondella Thomas told some 30 protesters and media gathered outside the governor’s house here Sept. 16. They were drawing attention to protests by over 100 prisoners…