Washington is relentlessly ratcheting up its political, economic and trade blockade against Cuba, raising the stakes for workers the world over to protest its drive to break the Cuban people. The U.S. government is making it harder and harder to…
BY KATY LEROUGETEL, MARTÍN KOPPEL AND CLAUDIA KAISER-LENOIR HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom was here in early August to report on the brutal impact of Washington’s relentless aggression against…
By the end of 1963 the nationwide movement fighting to abolish Jim Crow segregation was drawing in hundreds of thousands of working people and youth, imparting new confidence to fighters on frontline battles in the South and having a growing…
Worried about deepening opposition among working people to the Iranian regime’s dictatorial rule and its wars, the country’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, threatened Aug. 28 that “engaging in anything that harms social cohesion is prohibited” and will be punished. The…
PITTSBURGH — “‘Little to no change’: Central Appalachia black lung disease hits 50-year high,” was a headline in an article here in response to a sobering report on the continuing increase in deadly black lung in miners published by scientists…
Four and a half years since its invasion began, Moscow’s stalled ground war and murderous bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue daily, but are failing to break the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Its escalating campaign targets civilian populations in residential…
“U.S. corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt,” an Aug. 28 Financial Times headline said, pointing to the deepening class divisions under capitalist rule today. Increasing numbers of workers face greater difficulties in making ends meet, while for…
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, told participants in a well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 22 that working people and the unions need to speak out in protest against recent revelations of…
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.
