Che: Fidel spoke for all of us

Vol. 82/No. 1 - January 1, 2018

In Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58, Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto Che Guevara describes the broad support in both wings of the July 26 Movement for Fidel Castro’s principled, revolutionary response to the Miami Pact. Copyright © 1996 by…


Millions of workers saddled with unpayable student loan debts

Vol. 82/No. 1 - January 1, 2018

Millions of working people in the U.S. are saddled with huge student loan debts, now at a record level of $1.37 trillion. That’s higher than any other component of the household debt that is strangling growing numbers of working people,…


Teva workers in Israel join together to fight layoffs

Vol. 82/No. 1 - January 1, 2018
Dec. 18 protest by Teva Pharmaceutical workers outside factory in Jerusalem.

In one of the largest labor actions in Israel in recent years, thousands of workers joined a four-hour general strike Dec. 17 in solidarity with Teva Pharmaceutical workers fighting layoffs and plant closings announced Dec. 14. Teva, the largest generic…


Communist League in UK holds congress

Vol. 82/No. 1 - January 1, 2018
Communist League in UK holds congress

MANCHESTER, England — The 10th National Congress of the Communist League in the U.K. met here Dec. 16-17. The elected delegates, above, discussed and adopted a Political Resolution outlining a course to build the League and the international communist movement…


Kurdish people’s independence fight under attack in Iraq, Syria

Vol. 82/No. 1 - January 1, 2018

Washington, Moscow and the Shiite- and Sunni-led capitalist governments in the Middle East have been jockeying for position to defend their national interests as the wars against both the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and Islamic State in Syria and…