Protest in New York: ‘US hands off Cuba!’

National Nurses union says No! to blockade
Vol. 90/No. 24 - July 13, 2026
Jamie Brown, president of National Nurses United, speaking at June 30 press conference outside Capitol in Washington, D.C., calls for an end to the U.S. oil blockade of Cuba. Other speakers, from left, Bob Schwartz, executive director of Global Health Partners, and U.S. Representatives Jonathan Jackson and Pramila Jayapal.

Nat’l Nurses United union: ‘We will not remain silent!’ WASHINGTON — Setting an important example for the entire labor movement, National Nurses United — the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. — organized a press conference here June…


US, Tehran deal means no peace in the Mideast

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with Iran’s capitalist rulers to achieve the stability the U.S. rulers want to advance their…


Protests continue to spread in Iran, despite arrests, executions

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Workers at West Islamabad Health Center in Iran’s Kermanshah province protest June 22 over wages, benefits and delays in getting paid. “We are the guardians of people’s health in a deprived region, but we ourselves are struggling,” they told the Iranian Labour News Agency.

Despite devastating losses to its military, police and other parts of its repressive apparatus, as well as the destruction of many factories during the recent wars with Washington and Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei claimed the ceasefire it…


Join protests, demand: ‘US hands off Cuba!’

US rulers seek to strangle Cuba’s people
Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
“Hands Off Cuba!” picket by Minneapolis Cuba Committee June 3. Protests are crucial in fight to end U.S. gov’t blockade, threats of war. Cuban people will never give up their revolution.

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…


Auto parts workers in Michigan make gains in two-week strike

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Nearly 1,000 United Auto Workers, members of Local 2093, reversed wage concessions made at American Axle years ago, boosting pay and improving their working conditions.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…