Cuban Revolution shows how to beat hurricanes

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

Cuba is the one country in the world with a government that mobilizes the power of its working people to combat the effects of hurricanes and other natural disasters. In sharp contrast to Washington, it uses all the resources of…


Hong Kong imprisons journalists for sedition

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

On Sept. 26 two editors became the first journalists in Hong Kong convicted and sentenced on sedition charges for their news reporting under the city’s draconian new national security laws. The rulers in Beijing continue to tighten their repressive grip…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

October 18, 1999 Working people and all supporters of democratic rights have an obligation to speak out in defense of free speech and against censorship, in face of New York City Hall’s threat to cut funding and take other punitive…


Letters

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

Postal worker: ‘Thanks!’ As a member of the American Postal Workers Union, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the Militant for carrying a notice about our National Day of Action on Oct. 1. Aside from the sales associates…



Boeing workers strike is solid as bosses try to go around union

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

SEATTLE — Bosses at Boeing took what they called their “best and final” offer directly to 33,000 striking workers in an attempt to go around their union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 and District W24.…


End US rulers’ economic war against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
“Cuba has been a victim of terrorist actions that for years have been organized and financed from U.S. territories,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public meeting in Auckland Sept. 14. At left, Fiona Taler of the Cuba Friendship Society.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In campaigning against the over 60-year U.S. economic war against Cuba, “it’s important to demand Cuba’s removal from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public…


As battles with Hezbollah heat up: Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews!

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024
Israeli rescuers at houses hit by Hezbollah rocket in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel, Sept. 22. Daily missile attacks from Lebanon by Tehran-sponsored terror group target Jewish civilians.

Having made significant progress in the war to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces — no longer willing to accept daily missile assaults on northern Israel — are now focusing on Lebanon-based Hezbollah. And they’re dealing devastating blows to the…



Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/No. 37 - October 7, 2024

Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars and freedom of speech and the press have been fighting to overturn the ban on Militant issue no. 17 by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida, for five months. More…