25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

July 9, 2001 The Cuban government condemned the convictions in a U.S. court of five Cuban citizens on espionage and murder charges. The five, the statement says, were part of an operation to “discover and report on terrorist plans hatched…


Letters

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Joanne Holowchak Joanne Holowchak, a long-time member and supporter of the Communist League in Canada, died June 14 in London, Ontario. She had waged a courageous battle against dementia for the last 10 years, and was lovingly cared for by…


San Francisco airport workers fight against schedule changes

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — After six months of negotiations without reaching an acceptable contract, food and other concession workers at the San Francisco airport picketed outside the international terminal here June 18. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, are…


Víctor Dreke book on Cuba, Africa presented at Paris LASA conference

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Presentation of Víctor Dreke’s Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. From left, María Isabel Bardina of Cuba’s Camagüey University; chair Matilde Zimmermann; Wilson da Graça Robalo, of Federation of Cape Verdean Associations of France.

PARIS — “The fight for freedom is not local, it’s worldwide,” María Isabel Bardina of Cuba’s Camagüey University told 30 people at a meeting here to present Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of…


Fight against Jew-hatred falls to working class

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Violent assaults targeting Jews in the U.S. and worldwide are sharply expanding, shattering illusions that the Jewish people will be protected from abuse and attack by Washington and other “democratic” imperialist powers. These assaults go side by side with the…


US, Tehran deal means no peace in the Mideast

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with Iran’s capitalist rulers to achieve the stability the U.S. rulers want to advance their…


Join protests, demand: ‘US hands off Cuba!’

US rulers seek to strangle Cuba’s people
Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
“Hands Off Cuba!” picket at Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis June 3, called by area Cuba Committee. It was one of dozens across the country, worldwide.

Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…


In midst of US blockade, Cuba marks gains of agrarian reform

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

On May 17, National Farmers’ Day in Cuba, working people across the island marked the anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform. It was carried through 67 years ago by the workers and farmers government that had taken power five months…


SWP speaks for Puerto Rican independence at UN hearing

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…


Auto parts workers in Michigan make gains in two-week strike

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Nearly 1,000 United Auto Workers, members of Local 2093, reversed wage concessions made at American Axle years ago, boosting pay and improving their working conditions.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…