FEB. 25 — The Cuban government announced this afternoon that a speedboat registered in Florida approached their coast near Corralillo, in Villa Clara province. When a Cuban border guard boat approached to ask for identification, those on the U.S. boat…
Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. rulers have stepped up their drive to deal further economic and political blows to the Cuban…
As Washington’s blockade of the Cuban people intensifies, members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are campaigning to get out the truth about, and defend, Cuba’s socialist revolution. They’re organizing public…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals at hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii entered its fourth week Feb. 16. Spirited strike lines of nurses and…
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in South Minneapolis Feb. 16 for a march and rally sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border control agencies’ ongoing arrests and brutality here. Speakers urged people to keep…
Over 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, voted by almost 99% Feb. 4 to authorize a strike, but a strike deadline has not been set. They are fed up…
Prison authorities at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida, have now impounded three consecutive issues of the Militant, dated Feb. 2, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16. They object to three lead articles in each issue, which report on the…
MANCHESTER, England — “From what I know Cuba won’t break so easily as Venezuela,” David Lawrence, a gateline ticket checker at Manchester Piccadilly rail station, told Hugo Wils. Wils is the Communist League candidate in the parliamentary by-election for the…
Tens of thousands protested across Iran Feb. 17-18 to mark the 40-day commemoration of the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters at the hands of the bourgeois clerical regime. “This flower that was cut down has become a gift to…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
