SWP is working-class alternative to bosses’ Democrats, Republicans

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026

As the 2026 elections near, Socialist Workers Party candidates find increasing interest in their campaigns. They offer the only class-struggle program to protect workers from the attacks we’ve faced under both Democratic and Republican administrations and the further assaults the…


Cuba takes fight against US blockade to the UN

Cuban people act to defend their socialist revolution
Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Ambassador to U.N. Mike Waltz, right, speaks at U.S.-organized panel to peddle lies on Cuban Revolution, hoping to blunt effect of Oct. 27-28 U.N. vote against Washington’s blockade.

A striking report prepared by the government of Cuba detailing the U.S. government’s over six-decades-long record of attacks, sanctions and the recent oil blockade against its people will be presented and debated at a meeting of the United Nations General…


Hotel workers use rolling strikes in Chicago Loop

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Striking members of UNITE HERE Local 1 picket the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago Loop Oct. 13.

CHICAGO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 1 are continuing their fight for a contract at dozens of downtown hotels here. Workers at six of the largest hotels struck for five days Oct. 9-13, when the bosses had looked forward…


25, 50 and 75 years

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026

October 29, 2001 HAVANA — Four hundred people from 60 countries participated in the World Forum on Food Sovereignty here, convened by the National Association of Small Farmers of Cuba. A delegation from the United States included farmers from Wisconsin,…



Lessons for today from past union struggles

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026

Fighting to protect working people from the destructive effects of rising prices for food, housing, childcare and other essentials is a central responsibility in front of the unions. It goes side by side with fighting for jobs, safe working conditions…


Rapid spread of new Ebola epidemic in Africa is a deadly threat

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
In October 2014 then Cuban President Raúl Castro sees off volunteer medical brigade members going to Sierra Leone to combat Ebola. Today Washington is doing nothing to treat new Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Instead, it is preventing Cuban help.

Today’s largest and fastest growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached 9,552 confirmed cases with 4,602 deaths by Oct. 19. This is the most rapid spread of Ebola-caused deaths ever. Washington and other imperialist powers are…


Teamsters locked out at Phillips 66 refinery in NJ

Vol. 90/No. 39 - November 2, 2026
Teamsters locked out at Phillips 66 refinery in NJ

LINDEN, N.J. — Some 385 oil refinery workers, members of Teamsters Local 877, were locked out by Phillips 66 bosses at its Bayway Refinery, the largest refinery on the East Coast, Oct. 19. Union members had voted down a contract…


French students, backed by unions, protest deep gov’t cuts in education

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Almost half a million students, teachers, unions demonstrated across France Oct. 6, above, in Paris. Popular protests have spread, targeting gov’t austerity drive wreaking havoc on schools.

PARIS — Demonstrations by striking high school students demanding a decent education are spreading across France. What began Sept. 18 in Creteil, then three days later in Saint-Denis, both heavily immigrant, working-class suburbs here,  rapidly spread to over 40 cities.…


Facing punishing US blockade, Cuba trains 10,000 new doctors

Vol. 90/No. 38 - October 26, 2026
Cubans in Cacocum gather to greet first revolution-trained doctors and dentists in 1965. Graduates were accompanied by Fidel Castro, central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution.

One of the central aims of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ escalating attacks on Cuba is to cripple its popular healthcare system, and they’re doing everything in their power to do so. In response, the Cuban government and people are organizing…