Most big-business news reports on the pogrom carried out by Hamas that killed over 1,300 people in Israel Oct. 7 leave out one important fact — hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel rushed to aid the victims of the Tehran-backed…
“Cubana 455: Chronicles of October 6,” a three-part documentary and epilogue written and directed by Enrique Berumen BY BERNIE SENTER On Oct. 6, 1976, U.S.-backed enemies of Cuba’s socialist revolution detonated two bombs on Cubana airlines Flight 455. All 73…
Nine days after the bombing of Cubana airlines Flight 455, a million Cubans converged on Revolution Square in Havana. Below are excerpts from the speech Fidel Castro gave on Oct. 15, 1976. In parts of the speech not included here,…
Declining life expectancy in the U.S. — now at its lowest point in over 25 years — is a product of the deepening social and moral crisis of capitalism today. Working people find themselves unable to afford decent medical treatment…
MANCHESTER, England — Workers employed by contractors for rail companies around the country are finding ways to fight for equal pay, improved conditions and union rights. This occurs as workers at rail companies, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport…
LOS ANGELES — Some three dozen striking hotel workers, beating drums and plastic buckets and blowing on vuvuzelas, picketed the Westin hotel near the Los Angeles airport Oct. 7. They were protesting the latest contract offer from the bosses, an…
Hamas claims charges that its program is based on Jew-hatred are a slander. So that our readers can judge for themselves we reproduce below quotes from the 1988 Hamas covenant, which the group has never repudiated, and is in its…
Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — “They should shut it down if they can’t handle it,” Ondella Thomas told some 30 protesters and media gathered outside the governor’s house here Sept. 16. They were drawing attention to protests by over 100 prisoners…
One of the October Books of the Month is the Spanish edition of Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922-23. It describes the last political battle by V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the Bolshevik-led 1917 socialist revolution in Russia.…
