As Washington steps up economic war on Iran, Tehran attacks its working people

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
Teachers and retired workers from at least five cities bring solidarity to family of teacher union leader Masoud Farhikhteh, imprisoned under solitary confinement in Karaj, Iran.

President Donald Trump’s administration has backed away from threats of new and larger airstrikes on Iran — for the moment — while intensifying its suffocating economic warfare, including a naval blockade of Iranian ports. It’s working people and oppressed nationalities…



Jew-hatred, violent attacks on Jews increase across Canada

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
Noam, kosher restaurant in Montreal, burned to the ground Aug. 1. Owner Howard Szalavetz told the press he was thankful his late father, a Holocaust survivor, didn’t have to see the attack.

MONTREAL — Noam, a kosher restaurant here, was burned to the ground Aug. 1, one of a growing number of attacks on Jews in Canada. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time. Police are treating the act…


Cape Verdean film on independence struggle features Cuba’s role

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026

PHILADELPHIA — Cape Verdean filmmaker Elson Santos organized a showing of the new documentary he directed, along with Lara Sousa from Mozambique, to 80 people at the BlackStar Film Festival here July 6-9. The film, “We, People of the Islands,”…


Hamas seeks to maintain grip over Gaza, weapons

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026

The New York Times and other liberal capitalist news media are claiming that Hamas has agreed to “disarm” in exchange for Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza, part of a 15-point “peace” plan released July 31 by the so-called Board of…



Communist League campaigns, looks to file for ballot in Quebec

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
All but 28 of 930 Jewish refugees fleeing Germany aboard MS St. Louis were denied entry to Cuba in May 1939, then U.S. and Canada. Hundreds forced back to Europe died in Holocaust.

MONTREAL — The Communist League here is running an energetic working-class campaign for Joe Young, its candidate for the October elections to the Quebec National Assembly for the electoral district of St. Laurent. Party members joined Young in campaigning at…



Colloquium honors Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
René González Barrios, director of Fidel Castro Ruz Center, opens First International Fidel Colloquium: Legacy and Future, in Havana Aug. 10. On far right of panel is Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

HAVANA — The First International Fidel Colloquium: Legacy and Future opened here Aug. 10. René González Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which is organizing the four-day event, told participants that the 1,500 people attending include over 1,000…


For second week, hundreds of protesters back Haitians in Ohio

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
Over 700 people turned out in Blue Ash, Ohio, Aug. 9, lining the street outside regional immigration office to support Haitian neighbors, co-workers, demand TPS protection be restored.

BLUE ASH, Ohio — “Let them stay!” chanted hundreds of supporters of the right of Haitians who had been living and working in the U.S. for years under the government’s Temporary Protected Status program to remain in the U.S. They…