Caravans, rallies worldwide say, ‘End the US embargo of Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
Rally in Albany, New York, March 28, by participants in car caravan against U.S. economic war against Cuba. Similar caravans and rallies took place in 16 U.S. cities and 60 countries.

Thousands joined car caravans and rallies to protest the U.S. government’s economic war against Cuba in at least 16 U.S. cities and 60 countries around the world March 28. In Cuba, hundreds of cyclists and carloads of people took to…


‘Support amnesty for all immigrant workers in the US’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

The Joseph Biden administration insists that its attitude toward immigration is more “humane” than that of Donald Trump’s before it. But the fact is Biden is trying to shut the U.S. southern border as increasing numbers of migrant workers from…


SWP discusses road forward for workers in New Jersey ballot drive

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, speaks with Shanice Williams March 28. Williams, a postal worker, signed to put Socialist Workers Party on ballot.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party campaign supporters continue to make steady progress toward ballot status for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. By March 29, 914 signatures were collected toward the goal of 1,500. Petitions…


Montreal longshore workers fight for safety on the job

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

MONTREAL — By an almost unanimous vote March 21 longshore workers at the Port of Montreal rejected the latest “final” concession contract demands by the Maritime Employers Association. The online strike authorization vote by members of Canadian Union of Public…


Steelworkers in Farrell, Pennsylvania, end strike

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

Over 400 members of United Steelworkers Local 1016-3, who had been on strike for six months against NLMK Steel in Farrell, Pennsylvania, voted up a four-year contract March 1. At the center of the strike was workers’ efforts to keep…


Ten years since uprising, Syrian people face war, intervention

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

For a decade now, working people in Syria have faced a social catastrophe since President Bashar al-Assad’s regime moved to crush a popular uprising for political rights in 2011. As civil war began, Washington and the rulers of Iran, Russia…


Support for strike battles is crucial!

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York mayor, March 31. There are a number of important strikes and organizing drives today that deserve widespread support from workers and our unions. Join in bringing solidarity to striking…


Chinese Cubans: Indispensable strand of Cuba’s revolution

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021
“Resident Chinese support the Cuban Revolution and its leader, Fidel Castro!” is banner of Chinese New Democracy Alliance as they join a million people in Havana, Sept. 2, 1960. Rally approved Declaration of Havana, affirming duty of oppressed peoples to fight for liberation.

Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. It covers how these…


‘Safety is in the hands of these fighters’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

Below is a letter the Militant received from Jeri Mullan about the Marathon workers fight in St. Paul Park. I have been following with special interest the Militant coverage of the Marathon oil workers’ fight in St. Paul Park. For…