The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. Working people in the United States, the Middle East, and the world over must oppose…
Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up attack on Cuba turned out for a spirited picket line in front of the main Post Office…
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…
“The current situation in our sister Caribbean nation of Cuba,” David Comissiong, ambassador from Barbados to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), said in a Feb. 17 public letter, “demands a significant and meaningful response from all people and governments of conscience.”…
Far from quelling resistance by working people and students, the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters in Iran last month and the arrest of more than 50,000 has only deepened opposition to the bourgeois clerical regime. Meanwhile, Washington has put…
“We want to build protests against the U.S. blockade and threats against Cuba with whoever wants to join us,” Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, told participants at a campaign meeting in Los Angeles Feb. 22. “It’s…
LOS ANGELES — Chanting “I believe that we can win,” over 100 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers held a rally in front of City Hall here Feb. 22 demanding an improved contract. This was one of at…
The Militant is winning support for reversing the impoundment of three issues of the paper by prison authorities at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida. They impounded issues nos. 4, 5 and 6, dated Feb. 2, 9 and 16.…
MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League presents a way forward for working people, to use our class power to replace capitalist rule,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election here, told a campaign meeting at…
The Ukrainian people are resolutely defending their county’s sovereignty as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion entered its fifth year Feb. 24. Moscow’s airstrikes on the power grid, which controls heat, light and water in the harsh winter, are only stiffening…
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.
