US rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba dealt blow by Colombia award

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

The U.S. rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba was dealt a setback Dec. 8 when the Congress of Colombia gave an award to the Cuban government for facilitating talks that led to a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the…


Los Angeles meeting marks Cuba’s solidarity with Africa

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Discussion at Los Angeles meeting on Cuba and Africa Dec. 12. “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries,” Alejandro García said by video from the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. This shows “the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa.”

LOS ANGELES — “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries, just one example of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa,” Alejandro García, of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., told a meeting here Dec.…


Solidarity crucial to outcome of labor fights

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

Workers are showing growing confidence today in using our unions to fight against the attacks of the bosses and their government. This is an advance for all working people, including workers yet to be organized, farmers and all those oppressed…


Scientists protest California ‘anti-racist’ math plan

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

A national “open letter” signed by 1,470 math and science teachers and professors as of Dec. 19 protests the gutting of math education under the guise of fighting racism. The letter states, “We write to express our alarm over recent…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

January 6, 1997 For an entire month, daily protests against the Stalinist regime of Slobodan Milosevic have filled the streets of Yugoslavia. The number of demonstrators in the capital of Serbia has hovered around 100,000. On December 16 up to…


Protests condemn BBC reporting on anti-Jewish attack

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

LONDON — Angered by the BBC’s biased reporting minimizing an antisemitic assault two weeks earlier, 250 people gathered in front of the company’s central London offices Dec. 13, chanting, “BBC News: Tell the truth!” and “BBC News: Stop blaming Jews!”…



2021: Strikes, solidarity heat up the class struggle

Workers use their unions to fight boss attacks
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Nabisco strike support rally in Chicago Sept. 4. Issues raised by strikers, from fighting divisive two-tier wages to need for automatic cost-of-living clauses, are important for all workers.

“The concession stand is closed,” United Steelworkers union members told the Militant on the picket lines during their three-month strike against Allegheny Technologies Inc. earlier this year, showing their determination to take on the bosses’ unrelenting drive against our unity,…


Celebrate 63rd anniversary of the revolution in Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022
Fidel Castro addresses crowd in Havana in January 1959, after triumph over U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. “Before January, a vanguard was the main protagonist in events” in Cuba, Castro said 20 years later, but “since that January, the main protagonist has been the people.”

Below are excerpts from a speech given by Fidel Castro in Havana, Jan. 1, 1979, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and the opening of the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Castro…


Too Many Babies?

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

A woman’s private decision to decide when and how many children to have is being twisted by many liberal and middle-class radicals today who are hysterical about imminent climate change disaster and the bleakness of life they perceive. This has…