USS Abraham Lincoln, above right, leads one of three U.S. carrier strike groups in Middle East as Washington blockades boats from Iran’s ports, threatens escalation, seeks new negotiations.

End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East

Bring troops, bombers, warships home now!

The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarter” and more “reasonable” than their predecessors, who were assassinated in the U.S. war — to try to reach…


Cuba’s doctors fight to counter the effects of US blockade

A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…





‘Militant’ steps up fight against bans in Florida prisons

Support continues to build from unionists, civil liberties groups and others demanding authorities overturn the unconstitutional ban on six issues of the Militant in Florida prisons. On April 1 the paper received notice from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature…

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Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Hundreds of Cuban women, answering a call by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), demonstrated at the Mariana Grajales Park in Havana April 7 in defense of Cuba’s socialist revolution and to demand an end to Washington’s blockade against the…




US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.
The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…










Cuba and Chernobyl

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.