Cuban toilers’ ingenuity confronts US blockade

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
Cuban rail workers pose with “El Mayor,” big bus they adapted to run on tracks from old sugar plantations to the cities, using creativity and determination, opening travel from rural areas.

There are countless examples of how workers and farmers in Cuba are coming together to organize to meet the brutal effects of Washington’s stepped-up economic war and defend the gains of their socialist revolution. They are doing it with the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

April 2, 2001 SEATTLE — A West Coast-wide meeting here celebrated the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban people in defending their socialist revolution by routing a U.S.-backed invasion at Playa Girón. The gathering was an opportunity to…


Help advance ‘Militant,’ book and fund drive

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
“I like that sign for amnesty,” Medelinda Charles, a Haitian law student, told James Harris, SWP candidate from Washington, D.C. She bought a Militant subscription to learn more.

James Harris, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for delegate to Congress from Washington, D.C., brought solidarity to the fight of Haitian immigrants at a March 17 press conference and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The action was organized in…


Capitalism’s wars at home, abroad intertwined

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

Hard-fought labor battles at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, at the BP oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and by the United Farm Workers in California focus on matters that are vital for the working class as a whole, as the just-ended…




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…