Join the Communist League’s campaign in Britain!

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Join the Communist League’s campaign in Britain!

LONDON — The Communist League is standing party leader Jonathan Silberman in the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election here, to present a working-class road forward in the face of the sharpening attacks by the ruling class in Britain against workers…


Weakened Tehran turns to Houthis to exert leverage on Washington, Saudis

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

The Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen have stepped up their missile and drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities and seized more territory from Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, including the strategic port of Mokha Sept. 11. The reactionary group has taken…



Support Socialist Workers Party campaigns across the country

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

As the November elections in the U.S. draw closer, working people facing a choice of Donald Trump clones vs. middle-class, woke “socialists,” like Democratic Party candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, are looking for an alternative. Many who hear…


1964: Freedom Summer took Jim Crow fight into Mississippi

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Standing up to racist harassment and violence, Laura McGhee, above, opened her small farm outside Greenwood, Mississippi, to SNCC campaigners and others for rallies and meetings during the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to build the movement, deal blows to Jim Crow.

The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…


Does German vote open door to the return of fascist rule?

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Berlin is sharply expanding militarization, including converting car plants to arms production. Above, production line at Rheinmetall tank factory, the largest in Europe, in Kassel, Germany.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…


USS Abraham Lincoln: The US rulers care little about GIs

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026

Working-class families, including the young men and women in uniform in the U.S., just got a stark lesson in how little the capitalist rulers here are concerned about the well-being of its troops. For the ruling families, they’re just cannon…


Working people in Cuba come together to battle water crisis

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Cuban water truck supplies residents in Pinar del Río. Washington’s tightening oil blockade of the island causes power blackouts that stop water pumps, shortages of medical supplies. U.S. Embassy in Havana cynically issued health alert to U.S. travelers about poor water quality, lack of medicines.

The growing lack of safe drinking water in Cuba today is a product of the U.S. government’s ever-tightening oil blockade and punishing sanctions against the import of energy and other resources. This means a much greater risk of serious health…


Iran protests mark 4th anniversary of Zhina Amini’s death

Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Iran protests mark 4th anniversary of Zhina Amini’s death

Businesses shut down all across the Kurdish region of Iran Sept. 16 on the fourth anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman died at the hands of the hated “morality” police after her arrest in Tehran…


US hands off Cuba! End the stranglehold of the US blockade

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Vol. 90/No. 34 - September 28, 2026
Washington’s trade blockade curtailed public transport, but Cuban government, people were able to open schools anyway. Above, electric tricycle driver, passengers in Havana in August.

Cuba tells UN: ‘US blockade punishes life of our people’ “The long months living with only two or three hours of electricity a day or less, food spoiling, the heat that makes it impossible to sleep, parents fanning their babies,…