Washington-Beijing conflict sharpens with new tariff clash

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Joint war games by U.S., Japanese, Australian military forces in the Philippine Sea in 2020. U.S. rulers look to defend their military, financial supremacy from expanding reach of Beijing.

The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

April 24, 2000 DENNILTON, South Africa — “Our mission here is not just to help people — it is political. Cuba is making a contribution. We are representatives of the continuity of Cubans who fought and who are still fighting…


Opposition to Hamas grows in Gaza and the West Bank

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Thousands march against Hamas in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, April 16. When a dozen men showed up with signs opposing disarming Hamas, protesters tore up their signs and kicked them out.

In one more reflection of the growing opposition to Hamas and its Jew-hating allies in Gaza, Mohammad Sakr, head of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, called on armed thugs of Islamic Jihad to stop using the medical facility…




As Trump calls for ceasefire, Moscow steps up bombing civilians in Ukraine

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up its relentless aerial assault on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities, increasing deaths and destruction. Putin is punishing the Ukrainian toilers for their intransigent defense of their country’s sovereignty. And his…


Gov’t cuts federal labor mediators from 143 to 4. Is this a problem?

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

Liberal media and politicians are sounding the alarm about one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders last month that eliminated the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, saying it will lead to more labor strife. Only four mediators remain at the…


Cuba’s revolutionary course and proletarian morality

Preface to new book, ‘Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia,’ writings by Fidel Castro
Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Rebel Army column led by Ernesto Che Guevara is joined by people of Santa Clara after that Cuban city and Santiago de Cuba were liberated Jan. 1, 1959. Within hours, Batista dictatorship fell. Revolutionary war, Fidel Castro said, was won with “a minimum of weapons and a maximum of moral values.”

Below is the preface to Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution, published by Pathfinder Press, a collection of writings by Fidel Castro. Available for the first time at the Bogotá, Colombia, international…


Canadian court convicts two leaders of Freedom Convoy

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Truck barricade in Ottawa Feb. 8, 2022, during three-week Freedom Convoy. Canadian government invoked draconian Emergencies Act to use cops to end the protest, arrest leaders. Justin Trudeau, then prime minister, claimed protest was a “threat to national security.”

MONTREAL — After an unprecedented yearlong criminal trial in an Ottawa court, Judge Heather Perkins-McVey in an April 3 ruling convicted political activist Tamara Lich and trucker Chris Barber on the frame-up criminal charge of mischief. They face up to…


UK refuse workers confront government strikebreaking

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Some 150 strikers protested outside Birmingham City Council offices April 8. Hundreds of Unite unionists on strike for six weeks at three refuse depots there have won support as they face mounting attacks by the council, cops and Labour government in the UK.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Now into their sixth week on strike, hundreds of Unite union members at three refuse depots here remain solid in the face of mounting attacks by the City Council, the cops and the Labour government, and they’re…