January 29, 2001 HAVANA — “The Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution (ACRC) was created during the most difficult moment Cuba has yet seen,” Brig. Gen. Harry Villegas pointed out. The ACRC brings together in a single mass organization…
Rapacious wars over land and labor have marked the capitalist system since it replaced feudal rule. The drive to ever-deadlier world war is a permanent reality in the imperialist epoch, announced in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today, the rivalry…
As we mark the 67th anniversary of the popular triumph in Cuba that opened the way to the first socialist revolution in the Americas, the Spanish edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary…
Following Washington’s invasion of Venezuela, President Donald Trump called on Congress to increase the U.S. rulers’ current record-level war spending — $901 billion budgeted this year so far — by more than 50%. Trump’s demands come amid a sharp acceleration…
The capitalist economic crisis in the U.S. continues to tighten the squeeze on working people, with jobs — especially decent-paying, full-time jobs — becoming increasingly difficult to get. Amid high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to transportation, housing, health…
Before dawn on Jan. 10 a Jew-hating arsonist set fire to the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, the largest in the state. Two Torah scrolls, holding the most sacred Jewish religious text, were destroyed and five others damaged…
The Syrian government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered its forces to lay siege to three largely Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, Jan. 6-11. They seized control of two of them, Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, driving out…
Moscow launched more than two dozen missiles and hundreds of drones in a major assault on Ukrainian residential areas and its power grid Jan. 13. The goal of President Vladimir Putin’s regime is to leave civilians without heat, power and…
MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to attack Cuba. The action was organized by a dozen groups and promoted by the Quebec-Cuba…
January 22, 2001 The labor movement needs to respond to the power shortages, rate hikes, and skyrocketing fuel prices by demanding government expropriation of the power and energy companies. The anarchy of capitalism, especially in times of economic crisis, brings…
