LONDON — A couple of hundred people, including many families, joined a July 11 festival here to celebrate Cape Verde’s 51st anniversary since winning independence from Portuguese colonial rule. It was a lively event, with music, singers, dancing, speakers, and…
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, one of the original Moncada combatants and a veteran central leader of the Cuban Revolution, died June 21 in Havana. In 1953, Valdés was a 21-year-old helper to truck drivers hauling sugar cane when he heard young…
HAIFA, Israel — The second international Contemporary Antisemitism conference took place here July 7-9, hosted by the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. It was cosponsored by the Center…
The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the Books of the Month. Barnes has led the political course of the SWP to build a communist party whose members…
From Washington’s war against Iran, to Beijing’s military expansion in the Pacific, Moscow’s war to conquer Ukraine, and squabbles over who will dominate Europe, the capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for new wars to redivide the world for their profit…
July 30, 2001 A classified Pentagon strategy document elevates “homeland defense” into one of the four pillars of U.S. imperialist military doctrine and gives the military domestic duties in battling terrorism. The rulers know they must confront working people who…
Street protests, meetings press for end to US attacks NEW YORK — Fifty people held a spirited picket line July 11 demanding an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade, other far-reaching sanctions and war threats against Cuba. The action, sponsored…
“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…
AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…
Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…
