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US rulers seek to strangle Cuba’s people
Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
“Hands Off Cuba!” picket at Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis June 3, called by area Cuba Committee. It was one of dozens across the country, worldwide.

Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…


‘US hands off Cuba,’ say Puerto Rican Parade marchers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
‘US hands off Cuba,’ say Puerto Rican Parade marchers

CHICAGO — Opponents of Washington’s deepening attacks against Cuba got a tremendous response from thousands of people lining the route of the annual Puerto Rican People’s Parade here June 13. Two dozen people took part in a special Cuba solidarity…


In midst of US blockade, Cuba marks gains of agrarian reform

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

On May 17, National Farmers’ Day in Cuba, working people across the island marked the anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform. It was carried through 67 years ago by the workers and farmers government that had taken power five months…


SWP exposed decades of FBI spying, political disruption

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Los Angeles SWP headquarters firebombed in May 1970, with four people inside, by counterrevolutionary Cubans with long history of working with FBI and CIA. Inset, SWP leader Syd Stapleton with 3,138 documents the FBI was forced to turn over as a result of the SWP lawsuit.

Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June features Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock. Much of what is known about this decadeslong political disruption program is the result of evidence forced into the light through…


SWP speaks for Puerto Rican independence at UN hearing

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

July 9, 2001 The Cuban government condemned the convictions in a U.S. court of five Cuban citizens on espionage and murder charges. The five, the statement says, were part of an operation to “discover and report on terrorist plans hatched…


Capitalist rulers in Canada back Washington’s assaults on Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Canadian Network on Cuba organized demonstrations against U.S. oil blockade and other attacks on Cuba in a number of cities across the country Feb. 21-22, including Toronto, above.

MONTREAL — Canada’s capitalist rulers, along with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party government, are backing U.S. imperialism’s accelerating attacks on Cuba with the same goal — overthrowing Cuba’s socialist revolution. At the same time, a growing number of unions…


Indiana refinery workers locked out by BP stand firm

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WHITING, Ind. — “This is going to be a long one. But we are united and we’ll keep going as long as we need to,” Michelle O’Shaughnessy told the Militant on the picket line outside the BP oil refinery here…


SWP campaigns discuss road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Karla Jarquín, left, buys The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch from Socialist Workers Party member Lisa Rottach in North Miami parking lot May 23.

On actions demanding U.S. hands off Cuba, strike picket lines, and knocking on doors in working-class neighborhoods, members of the Socialist Workers Party find a growing interest in what the Militant has to say on the expanding threats of war,…


Victory! Charges against Ábrego García thrown out

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WASHINGTON — “I am grateful that today, justice has taken a step forward,” Kilmar Ábrego García said after U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. dismissed criminal charges pressed by the U.S. Justice Department against him in Nashville, Tennessee, May 22.…