Unions help lead protests for rights of immigrants in Minneapolis

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
Rally in defense of immigrant rights in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Feb. 7, sponsored by Teamsters Local 120. Growing union involvement is essential to build broad and effective protests.

MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the government’s “drawdown” removing 700 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 2,000 of them remain in Minnesota. They’re conducting raids and arrests of immigrant workers and increasingly of protesters who obstruct their operations. At the same time,…


SWP campaigns to defend Cuba, amnesty for immigrants

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
At a union-supported march for immigrant rights in Minneapolis Feb. 7, SWP supporters set up a table including placard, “US hands off Cuba!” One man wearing a union peacekeeper T-shirt stopped by to say, “I’ve been to Cuba and I’m glad to see your signs.”

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are urging working people to join them in organizing and building protests against Washington’s stepped-up oil blockade and threats of worse against Cuba. They’re…


Cuba’s working people respond to US threats

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
“Millions of Cubans value what we’ve gained through the revolution,” said Carlos Muñiz, above center, in Havana. Like other Cubans, office worker Magela Elepán, above left, has been getting military training, in case of invasion by Washington. Retired garment worker María Eugenia Arnet, far left, told Mary-Alice Waters, “They will never forgive us for making a socialist revolution.”

HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents arrived here Feb. 6 to report on the response of the Cuban people and their government to the sharp escalation in the U.S. rulers’ economic war against them. Combined with direct military threats,…



Communist League campaign in the UK gets a wide hearing

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
Communist League candidate Hugo Wils, left, discusses campaign at Feb. 1 house meeting.

MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League stands in the front lines of battles by working people,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election said. He was talking with seven workers, originally from Pakistan, at a…


Arizona judge revokes laws limiting abortion access

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como struck down three state laws that restricted access to abortion in Arizona Feb. 6. The laws required women to provide a reason for seeking an abortion, barred abortion in cases of nonfatal genetic abnormalities,…


70 years after his execution, Tommy Lee Walker cleared

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
Crowd outside Dallas County Courthouse during Tommy Lee Walker’s 1954 trial. Walker, an African American, was framed-up, convicted by an all-white jury and executed.

FORT WORTH, Texas — On Jan. 21, the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker. Walker, a 19-year-old Black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old…


Over 1,000 rally in Ohio to back TPS for Haitians

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — More than 1,000 supporters, double what organizers expected, packed St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church here Feb. 2 calling for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, one of many recent solidarity actions. Hundreds more were turned…


US rulers step up economic war, military threats against Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026
U.S. forces commandeered oil tanker Aquila II in Indian Ocean Feb. 9 after pursuit from Caribbean. Washington is using its blockade to try to bleed working people in Cuba.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 29 aiming to sever Cuba’s oil supplies and bring its people to their knees. The decree, intended to force Cubans and their government to bow down to the U.S. rulers’ imperialist dictates,…


Washington acts to reinforce its domination in the Mideast

Vol. 90/No. 7 - February 23, 2026

Washington has carried out a massive military buildup in the Mideast in recent weeks, including sending the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, destroyers, fighter jets and thousands of troops, on top of the 40,000 already stationed in eight bases across…