Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’

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Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Paul Mailhot, party’s candidate for New York governor, and Joanne Kuniansky, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, at Feb. 22 protest in New York defending Cuban sovereignty and its socialist revolution.

Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up attack on Cuba turned out for a spirited picket line in front of the main Post Office…


UK Communist League campaign winds up, gains workers’ support

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Hugo Wils, right, Communist League candidate for Parliament, discussed mounting war threats in the world with Mirza Arfan in Manchester Feb. 21. Arfan subscribed to the Militant.

MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League presents a way forward for working people, to use our class power to replace capitalist rule,”  Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election here, told a campaign meeting at…




Socialist Workers Party campaigns to tell truth about Cuba’s revolution

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

“We want to build protests against the U.S. blockade and threats against Cuba with whoever wants to join us,” Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, told participants at a campaign meeting in Los Angeles Feb. 22. “It’s…


Protesters tell Iran regime, ‘We will stay in the streets’

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Father of 18-year-old Mani Safarpour holds up his son’s picture during 40-day commemoration in Tehran. Participants sang, danced and cheered. Safarpour was murdered Jan. 8 when he tried to rescue a young woman being fired on by regime’s thugs at a protest.

Far from quelling resistance by working people and students, the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters in Iran last month and the arrest of more than 50,000 has only deepened opposition to the bourgeois clerical regime. Meanwhile, Washington has put…


Barbados envoy to Caricom: ‘It’s our duty to help Cuba’

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Doctor from Cuba’s internationalist medical mission treats patient in Haiti. Cuba contributes to economic, social and cultural development of many Caribbean nations, without conditions.

“The current situation in our sister Caribbean nation of Cuba,” David Comissiong, ambassador from Barbados to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), said in a Feb. 17 public letter, “demands a significant and meaningful response from all people and governments of conscience.”…


Protests back Ukraine, mark 4 years of Russian invasion

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

The Ukrainian people are resolutely defending their county’s sovereignty as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion entered its fifth year Feb. 24. Moscow’s airstrikes on the power grid, which controls heat, light and water in the harsh winter, are only stiffening…


Be ready to respond in action to any U.S. provocation!

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

FEB. 25 — The Cuban government announced this afternoon that a speedboat registered in Florida approached their coast near Corralillo, in Villa Clara province. When a Cuban border guard boat approached to ask for identification, those on the U.S. boat…