If you follow the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, or virtually any of the U.S. capitalist media, you saw front-page reports that Cuba was convulsed July 11 by a massive, spontaneous anti-government “uprising.” That the Cuban…
An RV-load of protesters against the U.S. economic war on Cuba are walking more than 1,000 miles over the next month to win support for ending Washington’s embargo. Carlos Lazo, a Cuban American high school teacher from Seattle and founder…
On June 1 the government of Puerto Rico handed over management of the breakdown-plagued state-owned electric system to Luma Energy, a U.S.-Canadian joint venture. The electrical workers union, UTIER, and other opponents of the move organized protests across the island…
Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president of Iran June 18 was marked by the growing lack of trust in the country’s bourgeois clerical regime by working people. Less than half of eligible voters turned out, the lowest for a presidential election…
NEW YORK — “Working people are discussing the rise in assaults and robberies here and across the country, and police brutality,” Róger Calero, Socialist Worker Party candidate for mayor, told the Militant June 30. Calero and running mates Willie Cotton…
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly June 23 to demand that Washington end its over 60-year-long economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba. At the session — the 29th in a row to vote for an…
Worried that its population is aging and there won’t be enough young workers to exploit to maximize state profits, the Chinese government announced last month that it was raising the limit on the number of children a family is allowed…
The Hamas group, which rules Gaza, mounted an incendiary balloon attack against civilian areas in Israel June 16, which caused at least 20 fires inside the country. This was meant to provoke a military response from the new Israeli administration,…
“We often have to choose between buying a tire for our trucks and shopping for the basic needs of our families,” truck driver Carlos Schettini told the Militant by phone from San Juan June 14. “Fuel is going up, the…
The brief wave of clashes in Israel in mid-May shows the challenges and the desire of Jewish and Arab working people there to come together to advance their class interests. Attacks against Jews and Arabs alike took place as tensions…
