Fidel Castro: Why Cuba has no need for nuclear weapons

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Cuban President Fidel Castro places wreath for victims of atom bomb at memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, March 3, 2003.

Aug. 13, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro. Under his leadership the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement led Cuba’s working people to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and opened the…


Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters picketed at United’s corporate headquarters in Chicago Jan. 15, part of their four-year-long battle for a new contract.

CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters at a spirited picket line here Jan. 15. Airline workers flew in from…


Boeing, gov’t knew about flaw in Louisville plane that crashed

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A damning Jan. 14 report from the National Transportation Safety Board documented that the United Parcel Service plane that crashed on takeoff at the Muhammed Ali International Airport here last November had a structural flaw that Boeing…



Anou Vongbandith sends solidarity message to Kilmar Ábrego García

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

Anovsack Vongbandith, known as Anou, who along with his wife Anh runs a restaurant in Philadelphia and is originally from Laos, was seized and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and imprisoned in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania…


Gov’t attack on Ábrego García takes a beating, support grows

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Kilmar Ábrego García, freed from detention by widespread support, and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, leave court in Greenbelt, Maryland, Dec. 22. The sign says, “We are all Kilmar.”

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice will face sharp questioning on the witness stand in Federal District Court in Nashville, Tennessee, Jan. 28. Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. says he intends to dig into the facts of their transparently…


Who was the Shah, what was the 1979 revolution in Iran?

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Protest in Tehran against U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, Sept. 7, 1978. The next day Shah’s forces fired on the protesters, killing hundreds, in what became known as Black Friday.

The view presented by capitalist politicians and the bourgeois press — echoing the claims by Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — is that the bourgeois clerical regime in power in Iran today is the defender and continuity of the 1979…


‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

President Donald Trump has established what he calls a “Board of Peace” initially aimed at the Middle East, a region that is crucial for the U.S. imperialist rulers’ interests. He is now seeking to extend its authority over bloody conflicts…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

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…


Amnesty for immigrants, to unify the working class!

Course of liberals, left poses obstacle to progress
Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Broad, labor-supported rally in Minneapolis Jan. 10 against ICE assaults and mass deportations. Mass union action is needed to involve immigrant workers, fight to unify the working class.

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations targeting immigrant workers have escalated here. They’ve spread from the Twin Cities area to Rochester, Willmar, St. Cloud, Mankato, Alexandria, St. James, Fergus Falls, Pelican Rapids, Waite Park and Detroit Lakes. The assaults…