The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…
US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to the island “to deliver a message” to the Cuban government; U.S. spy…
“No economy in the world, not even the most developed one, could have resisted what this small island has been able to resist,” Ariadna Cornelio Hitchman, head of legal affairs for U.S. relations in Cuba’s foreign ministry, said on television…
NEW YORK — After 3,500 rail unionists on the Long Island Rail Road had been on strike for three days, officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and union negotiators announced May 19 that an agreement had been reached and ended…
While Israel has dealt major blows to the reactionary, Jew-hating capitalist regime in Tehran and its key allies in the so-called axis of resistance — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen — nothing is settled. Israel…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party are encouraging readers of the Militant who subscribed during the party’s recent spring campaign to join them in building solidarity with union strike struggles and in organizing actions to defend Cuba from Washington’s growing…
Tens of thousands of people in Ukraine and around the world marked the 82nd anniversary May 18 of the savage deportation of the Crimean Tatar nation by the Stalinist regime in Moscow as the end of World War II neared.…
Following a monthslong fight by defenders of free speech and the rights of workers behind bars, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has reversed prison bans on seven of the 10 Militants denied to inmates there this year.…
Forces on the middle-class left, echoed by the liberal media, are increasingly infatuated with the use of violence against political opponents, as shown by their fascination with Luigi Mangione’s alleged slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Their sugarcoating of such…
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.
