Australia ‘US hands off Cuba’ protest; new convoy brings aid

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
March 21 rally in Sydney demands “End U.S. blockade of Cuba!” Protests are continuing worldwide against Washington’s brutal attempts to overturn Cuba’s socialist revolution.

SYDNEY — “What do we want? End the blockade! When do we want it? Now!” chanted participants at a March 21 protest here to oppose Washington’s escalating threats and economic stranglehold on Cuba. Up to 70 people rallied outside the…


Join fight to end US rulers’ punishing assault on Cuba

Expose bipartisan smear campaign against Cuba
Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

Havana: Cuba’s sovereignty is not up for negotiation In the last three months President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been either talking about a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, or that they’re “ready to bomb and destroy”…


Victory! Ban on ‘Militant’ in Texas prison retracted

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

The Militant and its readers scored a victory March 23 when the open-ended ban on the paper at the Federal Correctional Institution Three Rivers in southern Texas was reversed! Only a few days after Militant attorney David Goldstein filed an…


Cuban toilers’ ingenuity confronts US blockade

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
Cuban rail workers pose with “El Mayor,” big bus they adapted to run on tracks from old sugar plantations to the cities, using creativity and determination, opening travel from rural areas.

There are countless examples of how workers and farmers in Cuba are coming together to organize to meet the brutal effects of Washington’s stepped-up economic war and defend the gains of their socialist revolution. They are doing it with the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

April 2, 2001 SEATTLE — A West Coast-wide meeting here celebrated the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban people in defending their socialist revolution by routing a U.S.-backed invasion at Playa Girón. The gathering was an opportunity to…


Help advance ‘Militant,’ book and fund drive

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
“I like that sign for amnesty,” Medelinda Charles, a Haitian law student, told James Harris, SWP candidate from Washington, D.C. She bought a Militant subscription to learn more.

James Harris, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for delegate to Congress from Washington, D.C., brought solidarity to the fight of Haitian immigrants at a March 17 press conference and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The action was organized in…


Capitalism’s wars at home, abroad intertwined

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

Hard-fought labor battles at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, at the BP oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and by the United Farm Workers in California focus on matters that are vital for the working class as a whole, as the just-ended…