Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Thousands of Cubans gathered in Sancti Spiritus July 26 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the rebel assault led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons in 1953. It was the beginning of constructing a…


Child care crisis facing working people worsens

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

The crisis of child care for the working class has worsened since the government’s $24 billion pandemic relief program ended last September. Pressures are increasing, especially on women, to quit work in order to look after children, while the rise…


Drug prices soar as inflation ravages the working class

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Despite having insurance, Jeni Rae Peters in Rapid City, South Dakota, faces over $30,000 of debt in 2020, and threats from bill collectors, after paying for drugs to treat cancer. Some 25% of cancer patients in the U.S. are forced to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes.

While Democrats and the liberal media are heralding a government report saying the average monthly inflation rate is falling, prices on a broad range of essential goods working people need remain stubbornly high, and they’re not coming down. This reality…


July 26: Building the leadership to make Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrison in Bayamo, opening the battle for Cuba’s socialist revolution. Without fear of…



Tehran’s allies expand drone, missile attacks on Jews, Israel

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

In retaliation for a drone attack targeting civilians that killed one person in a Tel Aviv apartment building and wounded nine others July 19, the Israeli air force struck fuel tanks and a power plant in the Houthi-controlled port city…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…


1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes: Lessons for workers today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Teamsters Local 574 leader announces May 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers strike has ended in victory. After bosses reneged on the contract, workers struck again in mid-July and won.

July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…


Putin regime in Moscow targets Russian culture today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

After brutally suppressing political protests against his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now intensifying his crackdown on culture and artistic creativity. “Censorship and repression is now at levels resembling those in the post-Stalin years of the later…


Fruit brings solidarity to Minneapolis park strikers

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Fruit brings solidarity to Minneapolis park strikers

MINNEAPOLIS — Rachele Fruit, the SWP candidate for president, brought solidarity to striking park workers here, members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, at Minnehaha Falls park July 21. The strike is in its third week as the…