For first time since 1959, Cuba plays baseball vs. US in Miami

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Cuban players celebrate win in World Baseball quarterfinal against Australia in Tokyo, March 15. Four days later, they played with dignity in Miami semifinal loss to U.S. team. Most fans backed the Cubans, but city officials turned blind eye as rightists tried to disrupt the game.

For the first time since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a baseball team representing Cuba played in Miami March 19. They were participating in the World Baseball Classic semifinals against the U.S. team. The Cuban team played with dignity in the…


SWP Int’l Educational Conference set June 8-11 in Ohio

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

The Socialist Workers Party 2023 International Educational Conference is less than two months away. The conference will take place June 8-11 at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The conference will include reports by leaders of the party, classes and discussion…


‘Militant’ gets around in the prisons

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

For the first time in decades, the Militant now has over 200 subscribers in 66 state and federal prisons across 28 states. Since the paper is often shared as part of what some workers behind bars call the “newspaper train,”…


East Palestine: ‘Get out truth about derailment, cleanup’

Residents, rail workers seek control over their lives
Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, small farmers and small-business people here, as well as rail workers across the country, continue to discuss steps to advance their interests after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and ensuing toxic chemical…


Immigrant workers protest gov’t disdain after California flooding

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Santiago Moreira, who has picked strawberries and other crops for 40 years, talks to SWP campaigner Betsey Stone beside belongings destroyed by flooding at his home in Pajaro, California.

PAJARO, Calif. — On March 30, dozens of angry victims of flooding here, many of them farmworkers, marched down muddy and debris-covered streets in a protest demanding government aid and equal treatment for undocumented workers. Ramiro Medrano, who helped organize…


Support Ukraine independence! Moscow get out of all of Ukraine!

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Yelena Tarbayeva holds sign, “Putin eats children” at court in Tula region south of Moscow April 6. She traveled 600 miles from St. Petersburg to support Alexei Moskalyov and his daughter, Maria, persecuted and separated for their anti-war views after Maria drew picture like this.

After 10 months of bloody fighting for Bakhmut, currently the central battle in Ukraine’s defense of its independence, Moscow’s forces are using scorched-earth tactics to shell more of the city to rubble. They’re inching forward against Ukrainian troops holding high-rise…


Hawaii hospital workers continue strike over pay, overtime, staffing

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023

WAIANAE, Hawaii — Nearly 500 nurses’ aides, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks and other hospital workers have been on strike at Kaiser’s three facilities on the island of Maui since Feb. 22, fighting for higher wages, no forced overtime and safe staff-patient…


SWP campaigns with ‘Militant,’ new book, fund for the paper

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Pete Bastounes, left, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150 in Morris, Illinois, told SWP member David Rosenfeld April 8 about supporting striking members of his union in Chicago area last year. He renewed his Militant subscription, bought three books on special offer.

“I remember you from last time, when I got a subscription to the Militant,” Pete Bastounes, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150, told Socialist Workers Party members Dan Fein and David Rosenfeld when they knocked on his door in…


Deepening crisis of capitalism drives political turmoil in Peru

Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Agricultural workers block Panamericana Sur highway in Villacuri, Peru, Dec. 3, 2020, in protest over unjust agrarian law. Banners demand higher wages, end of mistreatment on the job.

While the protests that erupted across Peru after the Dec. 7 ouster of President Pedro Castillo have receded, the issues behind the social unrest and ongoing political crisis remain. Castillo was deposed and jailed on charges of “breaching constitutional order”…