US hands off Cuba!

Defend Cuba’s sovereignty, socialist revolution
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
May Day rallies defended Cuba against Washington’s threats. In Pinar del Río province, Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution banner read, “Here, no one surrenders!”

US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to the island “to deliver a message” to the Cuban government; U.S. spy…


‘Times’ pushes lie that rape is ‘state policy’ in Israel

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

The New York Times featured a scurrilous article by long-time opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof May 11 that promotes the lie that sexual violence against Palestinians is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy” by the Israeli army, Shin…


Cuba: ‘Washington has created the crisis we face’

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Charcoal, produced to export for barbecuing in southern Europe, reaps much-needed hard currency for Cuba. Made from marabú, left, an invasive shrub on uncultivated land, its production creates jobs and clears land for agriculture. And it’s used for cooking during blackouts.

“No economy in the world, not even the most developed one, could have resisted what this small island has been able to resist,” Ariadna Cornelio Hitchman, head of legal affairs for U.S. relations in Cuba’s foreign ministry, said on television…


Lynn teachers union: ‘Stop deportation of our member’

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Mariola Perez, center, member of Lynn, Massachusetts, teachers union fighting deportation, at May 6 rally with union President Phil O’Connor speaking, Mayor Jared Nicholson, right.

With help from her union, students at the school where she works, and their parents and other community members, Mariola Perez, an immigrant from Guatemala, is fighting moves by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport her. Sixteen years ago Perez…


As Israel fights to defend its right to exist, Hamas rebuilds

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Palestinians walk through Gaza City during sandstorm Feb. 13. Millions of Gazans were displaced as a result of Hamas’ practice of placing command posts, weapons, inside hospitals and in tunnels underneath people’s homes. Now Hamas thugs are preventing workers in Gaza from building apartments for tens of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Rafah.

While Israel has dealt major blows to the reactionary, Jew-hating capitalist regime in Tehran and its key allies in the so-called axis of resistance — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen — nothing is settled. Israel…


Protest US war drive against Cuba!

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Demonstrations against the U.S. rulers’ mounting assaults on Cuba are needed as Washington seeks pretexts for military intervention, including filing frame-up charges against Cuban revolutionary leader Raúl Castro. Defense of Cuba’s sovereignty is an elemental defense of the national rights…


Join the SWP in campaigning for a road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Paul Mailhot, party’s candidate for New York governor, and Joanne Kuniansky, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, at Feb. 22 protest in New York defending Cuban sovereignty and its socialist revolution.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party are encouraging readers of the Militant who subscribed during the party’s recent spring campaign to join them in building solidarity with union strike struggles and in organizing actions to defend Cuba from Washington’s growing…


Free Ahmed Douma, Egyptian poet, activist

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Ahmed Douma at 2011 march in Tahrir Square, Cairo. A poet and political activist, he was arrested, imprisoned on frame-up charges of “publishing false news” April 6.

Ahmed Douma, an Egyptian poet, writer and fighter for political rights, was imprisoned yet again April 6. He was accused of “publishing false news and statements inside and outside the country with the intent to disturb public peace and spread…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

May 28, 2001 A demonstration of 100 in Salinas, California, May 13 grew in size as it marched there. Workers drove to the action from Fresno, Palo Alto, and San Mateo. Members of the Indigenous Oaxacan Front of Mexico participated…