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…


Cuba’s people stand against escalating new US sanctions

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Solar-powered charging station, or “solinera,” in Santa Clara, Cuba, the first of its kind in the country, provides free power to workers facing blackouts caused by Washington’s oil blockade.

While millions of people in Cuba demonstrated in defense of the country’s sovereignty and socialist revolution May 1, the U.S. capitalist rulers imposed a new round of punishing sanctions, intensifying their efforts to topple the government. President Donald Trump’s administration…


‘Militant,’ books, spring fund all are over the top!

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for California governor, with strikers on picket line at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, April 2. The SWP uses Militant, its campaigns to support union fights.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom brought home May 12 the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscriptions and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and…


Putin’s Ukraine war is ruining Russian working people

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

For the first time in almost two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual Victory Day parade celebrating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Germany in World War II had no tanks or ballistic missiles in Moscow’s Red Square May 9. And…



Los Angeles meeting reports on Cuba solidarity trip

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

WILMINGTON, Calif. — More than 40 people gathered at the Machinists union hall here May 9 for a “No war on Cuba!” emergency speak-out. The event also drew attendees joining in online. It was organized to oppose Washington’s oil blockade,…