Washington forum highlights Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

WASHINGTON — “We seek to preserve the economic and social transformation of Cuba today. To protect the rights of the Cuban people in a world more difficult and more dangerous than 1959,” Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of Mission…


Iran steelworkers make gains with 9-day strike

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

  After nine days on strike in the city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province, 3,000 workers at the National Steel Industry Group of Iran returned to work Dec. 31. Workers blocked entrances to the plant after the company suspended 21…


Students take on Jew-haters at Columbia University

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

The actions of so-called pro-Palestine groups worldwide who hail Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7 pogrom as “a new stage in the resistance against Zionism” have sparked a rise in Jew-hatred, highly visible on college campuses. Some university administrations have responded with…


Israeli workers look to unite, overcome divisions after Hamas attack

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Hamas hoped its Oct. 7 pogrom that slaughtered 1,200 people and wounded more than 5,000 would terrorize and demoralize Jews and all those who work with Jews in Israel. Instead, the assault has strengthened the will of working people to…


UK meeting draws lessons from Grenada Revolution

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
London meeting of 40 Nov. 18 discusses importance of Maurice Bishop and Grenada Revolution for working-class politics today. At podium, Matthew Lord, who joined the revolution there at age 14. From left, Jonathan Silberman, Communist League in U.K.; Michel Rodríguez, first secretary of the Cuban Embassy in London; and chair Ólof Andra Proppé.

LONDON — “The revolution was moving the country forward for the working class. That’s why I got involved,” Matthew Lord told 40 people at a “Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian Revolution” meeting here Nov. 18. Also on the platform at…


Workers in Iran boo the regime, Hamas

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

Opposition to Hamas is more widespread in Muslim countries than is presented in the liberal bourgeois press. While actions backing Hamas have been held in Egypt, Morocco and elsewhere, an explosion of protests against Israel in Arab countries hasn’t materialized.…



Arabs, Jews in Israel unite to save survivors of Hamas assault

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Most big-business news reports on the pogrom carried out by Hamas that killed over 1,300 people in Israel Oct. 7 leave out one important fact — hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel rushed to aid the victims of the Tehran-backed…


Hamas in its own words: ‘Kill the Jews’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Hamas claims charges that its program is based on Jew-hatred are a slander. So that our readers can judge for themselves we reproduce below quotes from the 1988 Hamas covenant, which the group has never repudiated, and is in its…


Ukraine unions fight Moscow invasion, boss attacks at home

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

In the midst of Moscow’s long and brutal war against Ukraine, and under cover of martial law at home, the Ukrainian capitalist class is pushing a new labor law that would weaken the labor movement. The working class is leading…