Isbel González charges neighbors’ cellphones at Casa Vera, a private student residence that made its power generator available to community during blackout. Inset, online post by Dania Murciano, resident of Holguín, eastern Cuba, with photo of devices being charged. Her post says: “You can still come here to charge. This is the moment to give a hand to each other.”
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Workers step up solidarity in face of the US embargo

HAVANA — Countless expressions of working-class solidarity have spread across Cuba, accompanying government efforts to confront the impact of two recent major emergencies — a three-day collapse of the national electrical grid and the damage caused by Hurricane Oscar in…


Fruit for president, Richter for vice president

‘Defend Israel as a refuge from Jew-hatred, pogroms’

Rachele Fruit, left, SWP candidate for president, is interviewed by press at Holocaust Memorial Oct. 10, 2023, in Miami, while at rally of 3,000 after murderous Hamas pogrom.

Iran rulers’ threats to Israel and Jews imperil all working people ATLANTA — “Oct. 7 was a declaration of war against the existence of Israel, a refuge for 7 million Jews and home to 2 million Palestinians and Arabs,” Rachele…



Boeing strikers discuss, vote on a tentative new contract

RENTON, Wash. — The 33,000 Machinists at Boeing voted Oct. 23 on a third contract offer from Boeing. It includes a 35% pay hike over four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and an increase in the company’s contribution to the…


Editorial

End US rulers’ economic, trade and political war against Cuba!

Fidel Castro addresses million-strong rally in February 1962 as workers and farmers made socialist revolution in Cuba. “Second Declaration of Havana” adopted there was call to action to working people across Americas, world to join in fight against U.S. imperialism.

For more than six decades, the U.S. capitalist rulers have tried by every means possible — from organizing the Bay of Pigs invasion to nuclear confrontation to terrorist bombings to an over 60-year-long, ever-tightening economic embargo — to try to…



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Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.