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…


Tehran regime determined to destroy Israel, kill the Jews

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

Since it came to power, the dictatorial bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran has promoted Jew-hatred and planned for the destruction of Israel, where nearly half the world’s Jews live. This reactionary regime consolidated its power through a counterrevolution in the early…


Cuban architect speaks on respect for culture

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

PITTSBURGH — Cuban architect Wendy Perez Lora spoke at several events here on a tour initiated by the Pittsburgh-Matanzas Sister City Partnership March 10-14. She discussed their collaboration on restoration of a museum and creation of a community center called…


1965 battle in Selma helped transform US

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Malcolm X addresses mass meeting in Selma, Alabama, Feb. 4, 1965, organized to build fight for right to vote. He spoke alongside Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Coretta Scott King.

One of the high points of the struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. — the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama — took place 61 years ago in March 1965. It was a pivotal event in…


‘Militant’ banned in Texas federal prison

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

An across-the-board ban on the Militant — on all issues of the paper — has been imposed by the Federal Correctional Institution Three Rivers in southern Texas, located between San Antonio and Corpus Christi. On March 2, the Militant received…


All US troops, weapons out of the Mideast!

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Thousands attend Friday sermon by Sheik Abdul-Hamid in Zahedan, Iran, March 13, in middle of the war. The Sunni and Baluchi leader called for freeing all political prisoners in Iran.

Unable so far to bring down or to stop the reactionary regime in Iran from retaliating against the U.S. bombardment, the imperialist rulers in Washington are sending 5,000 additional Marines and sailors to the region. They are traveling on warships…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

March 26, 2001 NEW YORK — Some 270 people gathered here to celebrate the 40th anniversary of U.S. imperialism’s first military defeat in the Americas: the victory of the Cuban people in crushing a U.S.-backed counterrevolutionary invasion at the Bay…