Cuban border guards prevent armed assault from Florida

Vol. 90/No. 10 - March 16, 2026
Weaponry Cuban border guards seized from counterrevolutionaries who sailed to Cuba from Florida and fired on the Cubans Feb. 25. Ten of the intruders were killed or captured.

Washington is utilizing a deadly gunfight between a Cuban border guard unit and a boatload of armed men trying to infiltrate the island Feb. 25 to step up its smear campaign and threats against Cuba’s socialist revolution. The Florida-registered boat…




Maryland court tells gov’t: ‘No more detaining Ábrego García’

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Kilmar Ábrego García at 2025 Baltimore rally.

In a victory in his fight against the government’s drive to deport Kilmar Ábrego García, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ruled Feb. 17 that he cannot be taken back into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This…


SWP launches Pennsylvania state campaign

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

PHILADELPHIA — Socialist Workers Party members in Pennsylvania, from branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, held a special state meeting Feb. 22 to discuss the substantial opportunities in running candidates and campaigning all across the state and beyond. In photo above…


Havana photo contest shows bond between Cuba and Puerto Rico

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Feb. 19 Havana event awards winners of photo contest. From left, Edwin González, delegate to Puerto Rican Mission to Cuba; Yanet Cáceres of Casa Editora Abril; contestant César Gabriel García, with bicycle he was awarded; along with René González, one of Cuban Five; and Gerardo Hernández, another member of the Cuban Five and head of Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. Below, part of audience enjoys the solidarity and fun.

HAVANA — Several young photographers won prizes at an event here Feb. 19 that highlighted both the fight against the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba and the ties of solidarity between the Cuban Revolution and the Puerto Rican independence struggle.…


Supreme Court hears Helms-Burton cases against Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

With supporting briefs filed by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, the Exxon Mobil and Havana Docks bosses took cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 23, seeking millions of dollars for property nationalized by the Cuban government — with massive…


Munich Security meeting shows deepening imperialist rivalries

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
German military uses Leopard II tank to recruit youth at Essen Auto Show. Amid growing capitalist clashes, Berlin aims to make Bundeswehr “strongest conventional army in Europe.”

Growing conflicts between representatives of the United States and governments in Europe were on display at the Munich Security Conference Feb. 13-15. This exposed how sharply opposing national interests underlie all relations between the rival ruling classes of the imperialist…


Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’

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Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026
Paul Mailhot, party’s candidate for New York governor, and Joanne Kuniansky, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, at Feb. 22 protest in New York defending Cuban sovereignty and its socialist revolution.

Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up attack on Cuba turned out for a spirited picket line in front of the main Post Office…


Somali groups protest lack of gov’t aid in Minneapolis

Vol. 90/No. 9 - March 9, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS — Neighbors United, a group of Somali small-business owners at the Somali-run Karmel Mall, held a press conference there Feb. 20 to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s operations in Minnesota and bring attention to the ruin many of them…