‘Cuba’s socialist revolution is example for workers of the world’

NY meeting celebrates 67th anniversary of Cuban Revolution, condemns US assault on Venezuela
Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Right, Cubans line the streets Jan. 15 as remains of Cuban combatants murdered during Washington’s assault on Venezuela are brought into Havana. Left, thousands march in Havana the next day condemning U.S. war moves and sending a powerful message they are ready to “defend the revolution with our lives.”

NEW YORK — “There couldn’t be a more important moment to be celebrating the 67th anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, victory of the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement over the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship that opened Cuba’s socialist…


Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters picketed at United’s corporate headquarters in Chicago Jan. 15, part of their four-year-long battle for a new contract.

CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters at a spirited picket line here Jan. 15. Airline workers flew in from…


Boeing, gov’t knew about flaw in Louisville plane that crashed

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A damning Jan. 14 report from the National Transportation Safety Board documented that the United Parcel Service plane that crashed on takeoff at the Muhammed Ali International Airport here last November had a structural flaw that Boeing…



Anou Vongbandith sends solidarity message to Kilmar Ábrego García

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

Anovsack Vongbandith, known as Anou, who along with his wife Anh runs a restaurant in Philadelphia and is originally from Laos, was seized and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and imprisoned in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania…


Gov’t attack on Ábrego García takes a beating, support grows

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Kilmar Ábrego García, freed from detention by widespread support, and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, leave court in Greenbelt, Maryland, Dec. 22. The sign says, “We are all Kilmar.”

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice will face sharp questioning on the witness stand in Federal District Court in Nashville, Tennessee, Jan. 28. Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. says he intends to dig into the facts of their transparently…


Who was the Shah, what was the 1979 revolution in Iran?

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Protest in Tehran against U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, Sept. 7, 1978. The next day Shah’s forces fired on the protesters, killing hundreds, in what became known as Black Friday.

The view presented by capitalist politicians and the bourgeois press — echoing the claims by Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — is that the bourgeois clerical regime in power in Iran today is the defender and continuity of the 1979…


‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

President Donald Trump has established what he calls a “Board of Peace” initially aimed at the Middle East, a region that is crucial for the U.S. imperialist rulers’ interests. He is now seeking to extend its authority over bloody conflicts…


The working-class road to end imperialism, war

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

Rapacious wars over land and labor have marked the capitalist system since it replaced feudal rule. The drive to ever-deadlier world war is a permanent reality in the imperialist epoch, announced in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today, the rivalry…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 3 - January 26, 2026

January 22, 2001 The labor movement needs to respond to the power shortages, rate hikes, and skyrocketing fuel prices by demanding government expropriation of the power and energy companies. The anarchy of capitalism, especially in times of economic crisis, brings…