Workers step up solidarity in face of the US embargo

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
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.”

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…


End Washington’s economic war against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

“The economic war” waged by the U.S. government “is the main cause of the hardships facing the Cuban people, and the country’s economy,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in a special media presentation in Havana Sept. 12. Rodríguez detailed…


Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Texas truckers protest in NY for better pay, conditions

NEW YORK — Independent truckers active in a fight for better pay and working conditions in the oil-producing Permian Basin, in western Texas, traveled here to hold a protest outside the headquarters of investment management company BlackRock Sept. 18. They…


Washington hands off Venezuela!
Stop US threats against Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 32 - August 26, 2024

The political crisis over the disputed results of the July 28 Venezuelan presidential elections has deepened as Washington, with imperial arrogance, continues to violate the country’s sovereignty by intervening in the oil-rich country’s internal affairs. President Nicolás Maduro was officially…


1952: Cuban farmworkers in a fight get help from Fidel Castro

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

Earlier this year the Militant received a letter from Javier Perdomo, one of the millions of working people caught up by the “enormous machine for grinding people up” that is the U.S. criminal “justice” system. That quote comes from Ramón…


Cuban Five: Example of dignity, respect inside US prisons

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Cuban Five: Example of dignity, respect inside US prisons

Ramón Labañino, center, in July 2012 at Federal Correction Institution in Jesup, Georgia, poses with fellow Cuban prisoners he met there. He and the other four revolutionaries who made up the “Cuban Five” spent up to 16 years in U.S.…


Oppose US intervention in Venezuela

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the  winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…



Mexican rulers surpass China as number one exporter to US

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Unionists at ArcelorMittal Mexico vote on proposed contract in Michoacán, Mexico, July 9. Some 3,500 steelworkers, members of the miners union, struck May 24, demanding better wages and working conditions. The company fired 1,200, calling the action illegal.

Mexico has surpassed China as the number one source of goods imported by the United States. The sharpening tensions between Washington and Beijing, as well as the drive by capitalist bosses to tap sources of goods closer to their main…


‘Amnesty for immigrants in the US, unify working class’

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Dennis Richter, center, party’s vice presidential candidate, campaigns May 24 in New York among delivery workers, many of whom are from West African countries. Workers face capitalist exploitation the world over, Richter said.

NEW YORK — During a visit here May 24, Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, spoke with a dozen or more app-based bicycle food delivery workers — many from West African countries — about conditions faced…