1960: Black youth decide now is the time to act, sit-in movement begins

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Protest after firebombing of house of Z. Alexander Looby, lawyer for students organizing lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee, April 19, 1960. Marchers confronted Mayor Ben West, who agreed to desegregate pub-lic facilities. Inset, Young Socialist magazine calls for solidarity.

From the mid-1950s on, the Black-led working-class movement to end Jim Crow segregation was propelled by a series of pitched battles in areas across the South, like the victorious Montgomery bus boycott, and the nationwide solidarity they inspired. In 1960,…



C&H strikers back to work as bosses agree to new negotiations

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Striking members of ILWU Local 6 at C&H Sugar in Crockett, California, receive six pallets of essential aid, including food, in solidarity from Los Angeles Labor Council June 30.

CROCKETT, Calif. — In a joint statement, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 and C&H Sugar management announced July 27 that striking members of Local 6 will go back to work under the terms of their old contract while…


Working people face squeeze as prices stay high, jobs disappear

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026

Government officials are gushing over the state of the U.S. economy, pointing to June’s unemployment rate of just 4.2%, the lowest in a year. But this figure disguises the reality facing the working class today. Millions face huge challenges in…


Gov’t launches attack on Cuba supporters in US, political rights

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Fair Play for Cuba picket of over 500 in New York in November 1960 protests moves by U.S. Navy fleet in Caribbean. State Department falsely claims it was “funded by Castro regime,” but it raised donations from people in the U.S. to get out the truth about Cuban Revolution.

The government in Washington has launched a new attack against supporters of the Cuban Revolution in the U.S., alongside its oil blockade and escalating financial sanctions aimed at strangling the Cuban economy and suffocating the Cuban people. Their targeting of…


Minneapolis, Orlando events: independence for Puerto Rico!

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 40 people attended an event here calling for independence for Puerto Rico held at El Colegio High School July 18. “Our land is under attack and we will never stop fighting for it,” Miguel Fiol, a longtime…


US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats

Stop gov’t attacks on right to defend Cuba
Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Protest in defense of Cuba outside Cuban Consulate in Montreal, one of several across world July 26, demands end of U.S. economic blockade. Sign top left says, “Honk to show support.”

July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of the opening battle that led to the victory of the Cuban Revolution.…


Pathfinder titles welcomed at Federation of Blind convention

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Janice Grisham, president of Springfield, Missouri, chapter of National Federation of the Blind, with granddaughter Morgan Long, who buys three Pathfinder titles from exhibitor Bob Roberts at NFB’s convention in Austin, Texas, in July. Some 2,700 people took part in the proceedings.

AUSTIN, Texas — Some 2,700 people attended this year’s National Federation of the Blind convention here July 3-8. Another 600 listened to the proceedings online. Delegations attended from Hawaii and Puerto Rico, as well as across the U.S. For the…


Calif. hotel workers fight to win union representation

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Calif. hotel workers fight to win union representation

BERKELEY, Calif. — More than 50 hotel workers and their supporters picketed outside the Graduate Hotel here July 24 as they prepare to vote for union representation by UNITE HERE Local 2 in a week. “They want better working conditions,”…