Steelworkers strike ArcelorMittal plant in Ohio

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

SHELBY, Ohio — Some 450 United Steelworkers members at the ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant here have been on strike since Jan. 13 fighting demands by the company to limit health care for workers’ spouses and change their work schedule in…


Support fight by Haitians for TPS protection!

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Support fight by Haitians for TPS protection!

WASHINGTON — At a press conference and rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building here March 17, Faith in Action Executive Director Bishop Dwayne Royster, above, called for the court to uphold Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000…


Protests in Montreal, Seattle hit US oil blockade of Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

MONTREAL — “As a labor union, we must support the Cuban people,” said Chantal Ide, general secretary of the Montreal Metropolitan Council of the National Trade Unions Confederation (CSN), at a conference to support Cuba at the union’s offices here…



Moscow bombs Ukraine miners, uses its troops as cannon fodder

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Toll on workers, oppressed nationalities in uniform in Russian army since all-out invasion by Moscow began Feb. 24, 2022. Casualties now regularly outstrip recruitment efforts.

Ukrainian working people are determined to continue fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty, despite Moscow’s airstrikes causing blackouts in cities across Ukraine during the depths of winter. Four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest, Moscow…


US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s oil blockade

NY conference to defend Cuba features Cuban ambassador
Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Seattle picket March 15 demands U.S. hands off Cuba! Actions against Washington’s escalating economic war on Cuba’s socialist revolution have taken place across country, around world.

NEW YORK — What is the “Cuba problem,” as the Donald Trump administration calls it, that Washington has sought to destroy for more than six decades? “It’s the example that the Cuban Revolution represents for many in the world,” said…


Beijing moves to impose ‘Chinese culture’ on all peoples

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

China’s National People’s Congress, a rubber-stamp for President Xi Jinping, passed sweeping legislation March 12 that further attacks the rights of tens of millions of the country’s residents. It mandates Mandarin as the primary language in schools and official communications…


Stop US rulers’ assault on Cuba! Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

Working people should oppose every assault by Washington on the sovereign rights of other nations, regardless of the character of their governments, from the reactionary regime in Iran to the revolutionary government of Cuba. The U.S. rulers’ blockade and threats…


High school students in Illinois protest ICE raids, deportations

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — A spirited student walkout at East Maine High School here drew some 100 participants March 3. Many held homemade signs as they marched through the neighborhood to protest immigration raids and deportations. Some participated in their…


SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

Vol. 90/No. 11 - March 23, 2026
SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters

PITTSBURGH — Tony Lane, Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, speaking, and Sergio Zambrana, SWP candidate for Congress in the 12th District, formally kicked off their campaigns here March 7, at a meeting in the party’s new…