People hold images of Raúl Castro, leader of Cuban Revolution, as thousands rallied in Havana May 22 to protest Washington’s oil blockade of Cuba and to defend their socialist revolution.

Cuban people defend their revolution! US hands off!

Washington tightens blockade against Cuba

Washington adds new bans on trade and travel to Cuba The Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed expanded sanctions against Cuba that took effect Sept. 30, tightening Washington’s squeeze on the Cuban people and its drive to overturn the country’s…


Cubans collaborate to ease conditions, show movies

Cuban film institute is deploying mobile cinemas, using generators and solar power, to Havana, rural, working-class communities across Cuba. Initiative’s roots lie in early days of revolution.

Working people in Cuba are coming together to take initiatives to combat the effects of the U.S. rulers’ brutal oil blockade and crippling sanctions. An important part of this effort is the re-launching of mobile cinemas around the country by…


Solidarity with BP oil workers, locked out for over 6 months!

Locked-out BP oil refinery workers in Whiting, Indiana, gather for news conference Oct. 2 at USW Local 7-1 hall to protest move by bosses to end workers’ unemployment benefits.

WHITING, Ind. — The 800 oil refinery workers locked out by BP in March, after they overwhelmingly rejected the company’s “last, best, and final” offer, have been picketing the refinery for more than six months. Their slogan is “One day…





Botched execution tortures woman in Tennessee prison

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a cruel and gruesome failed attempt by state officials to execute her Sept. 30 at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville. Pike…

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Rallies defend immigrant workers in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado

Students march and rally in Denver Sept. 4 after walking out of class at more than 200 high schools in Colorado to demand a halt to ICE raids, construction of new ICE detention centers.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on three towns in southwestern Kansas — Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal — at the end of September, stopping cars and making arrests of immigrant workers. Their operations were met by protests by…





US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.
The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…











Cuba and Chernobyl

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.