US hands off Cuba!

Defend Cuba’s sovereignty, socialist revolution
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
May Day rallies defended Cuba against Washington’s threats. In Pinar del Río province, Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution banner read, “Here, no one surrenders!”

US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to the island “to deliver a message” to the Cuban government; U.S. spy…



‘Times’ pushes lie that rape is ‘state policy’ in Israel

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

The New York Times featured a scurrilous article by long-time opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof May 11 that promotes the lie that sexual violence against Palestinians is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy” by the Israeli army, Shin…


Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

May 28, 2001 A demonstration of 100 in Salinas, California, May 13 grew in size as it marched there. Workers drove to the action from Fresno, Palo Alto, and San Mateo. Members of the Indigenous Oaxacan Front of Mexico participated…


Free Ahmed Douma, Egyptian poet, activist

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Ahmed Douma at 2011 march in Tahrir Square, Cairo. A poet and political activist, he was arrested, imprisoned on frame-up charges of “publishing false news” April 6.

Ahmed Douma, an Egyptian poet, writer and fighter for political rights, was imprisoned yet again April 6. He was accused of “publishing false news and statements inside and outside the country with the intent to disturb public peace and spread…


Protest US war drive against Cuba!

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Demonstrations against the U.S. rulers’ mounting assaults on Cuba are needed as Washington seeks pretexts for military intervention, including filing frame-up charges against Cuban revolutionary leader Raúl Castro. Defense of Cuba’s sovereignty is an elemental defense of the national rights…


Lynn teachers union: ‘Stop deportation of our member’

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Mariola Perez, center, member of Lynn, Massachusetts, teachers union fighting deportation, at May 6 rally with union President Phil O’Connor speaking, Mayor Jared Nicholson, right.

With help from her union, students at the school where she works, and their parents and other community members, Mariola Perez, an immigrant from Guatemala, is fighting moves by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport her. Sixteen years ago Perez…


‘The world party of the toilers, the oppressed, and the exploited’

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
The Socialist Workers Party campaigned to win unions to oppose the U.S. rulers’ drive to drag workers into the second imperialist world war over resources, markets, colonial plunder. Above are 1940 headlines from the Socialist Appeal, then paper of the SWP.

This week’s Book of the Month is Writings of Leon Trotsky (1939-40). The selection is from the 1940 “Manifesto of the Fourth International on the imperialist war and the proletarian world revolution.” It was adopted at an emergency conference of…


Health services workers in Minnesota strike for contract

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

CENTER CITY, Minn. — Chanting, “What do we want? A contract! When do want it? Now!” striking Chisago County workers, members of Teamsters Local 320, marched in front of the Government Center here May 5. The strike began May 1.…