LONDON — Larry Herman, 79, a longtime supporter of the Communist League in the U.K., died suddenly Dec. 29. Herman, born to a Jewish family in New York, moved here in 1968. He joined the Communist League’s forerunner, the International…
A vigil at Miami International Airport, Dec. 23, above, protests the U.S. rulers’ six-decade-long embargo against Cuba. Similar actions were held the same day in Albany and New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Seattle. Actions were also held in Havana…
“All working people should get vaccinated, including getting booster shots. This is in the interests of strengthening the unity and fighting capacity of the working class,” said John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Jan. 5. “Our unions must…
LOS ANGELES — “We have medical brigades in more than 10 African countries, just one example of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with the peoples of Africa,” Alejandro García, of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., told a meeting here Dec.…
A national “open letter” signed by 1,470 math and science teachers and professors as of Dec. 19 protests the gutting of math education under the guise of fighting racism. The letter states, “We write to express our alarm over recent…
LONDON — Angered by the BBC’s biased reporting minimizing an antisemitic assault two weeks earlier, 250 people gathered in front of the company’s central London offices Dec. 13, chanting, “BBC News: Tell the truth!” and “BBC News: Stop blaming Jews!”…
Below are excerpts from a speech given by Fidel Castro in Havana, Jan. 1, 1979, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and the opening of the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Castro…
A woman’s private decision to decide when and how many children to have is being twisted by many liberal and middle-class radicals today who are hysterical about imminent climate change disaster and the bleakness of life they perceive. This has…
One of the central tasks taken on by the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was to organize determined steps toward women’s equality and ability to participate fully in society as part of advancing the revolution. Below…
