Washington expands bases, weaponry in Puerto Rico

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Demonstration against U.S. Marines training at Camp Santiago in Salinas, Puerto Rico, organized by Mothers Against War Nov. 29. In center is Sonia Santiago, a leader of the group.

As part of its broader military buildup across Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington has rapidly expanded U.S. aerial and naval operations in Puerto Rico, provoking widespread concern and indignation among working people there. Many oppose the U.S. rulers once…


Deadly flooding in Southeast Asia reveals social catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Flood survivors cross swollen river on logs in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 2. Unbridled capitalist expansion turned storms, flooding in Southeast Asia into a deadly social disaster.

SYDNEY — Monsoon rains and tropical storms caused massive floods and landslides, which devastated much of Southeast Asia since late November, leaving some 2,000 dead and over 1 million displaced. Buildings and farmland, including whole towns, have been destroyed, and…


G20 meeting exposes growing fight by rival capitalist rulers

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Vast disparities between social classes counterposed in Johannesburg, 2016. Claiming to fight “inequality emergency,” some G20 forces attack Washington’s place as top imperialist power

Mounting conflicts between the world’s rival capitalist powers over economic supremacy, political domination and the threat of new wars were exposed at the Nov. 22-23 G20 summit. Washington refused to attend, while the governments of Brazil and host nation South…


Bolshevik Revolution showed the road forward for working people

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Workers meeting in a factory during 1917 Russian Revolution. The victory of the Bolshevik-led socialist revolution inspired millions worldwide to build communist parties, including in U.S.

Nov. 7 marked the 108th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, led by V.I. Lenin. That powerful revolution showed workers can take political power into our own hands, and showed the kind of revolutionary working-class political party that is needed.…


Working-class resistance boosts sales at Montreal book fair

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

MONTREAL — Pathfinder Books, which features books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries worldwide, from Fidel Castro to Russian revolutionaries V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, mounted a sizable stand at the Nov. 19-23 Salon du livre…



Hong Kong catastrophe: capitalist greed, gov’t disdain

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

LONDON — A catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court complex left at least 159 dead, with dozens of people still missing as of Dec. 3. The inferno began at the high-rise apartments Nov. 26 and has drawn comparisons…


Reactionary jihadi rebels mount blockade of Bamako, Mali capital

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Islamist rebels aim to topple military government in Mali, impose Sharia law on toilers there.

Bamako, the capital of Mali, with 4 million people, is being choked off by a blockade imposed by Islamist rebels, preventing fuel, food and other goods from getting to the city, in an effort to bring down Mali’s military government.…


Cuban ambassador: ‘US moving to attack Venezuela’

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, right, and author Robert Bartholomew at program in Auckland Nov. 23. “Cuba, other countries of Latin America, face real challenges as U.S. government moves to take military action in Venezuela,” Morejón said.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “Cuba and other countries of Latin America are facing real challenges today, as the U.S. government moves to take military action against Venezuela,” Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a meeting of 55…


As holidays loom, workers face debt, exorbitant prices, economic squeeze

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

After nearly five years of persistent high prices, with the costs for rent, electricity, health care and more up at least 25% since 2020, class differentiations are sharpening. The working class faces increasing difficulties making ends meet, while the capitalist…