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Letter from a Cuban Soldier to a U.S. Soldier

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“I don’t know your name, your age, or if you have children or siblings. I don’t know the color of your skin or your family history. But I do know one thing: you and I are soldiers. And right now, the circles of power place us on opposite sides of a threat that I didn’t seek, and that I presume you didn’t either. ”With these words, a Cuban soldier began an “Open Letter from a Cuban Soldier to an American Soldier” on May 27, 2026. The letter is a very personal expression of the reality that the U.S. warmakers deny, that — despite the tremendous hardships of the Cuban people today — they stand ready to defend their independence and their sovereignty with their lives.

Palestinian Pop Singer Elyanna Sparks Acclaim, Controversy

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This article reports on the growing international popularity of Palestinian pop singer Elyanna, who is scheduled to perform at the opening of the soccer World Cup in Mexico City on June 11, 2026. The singer has sparked acclaim and controversy by expressing pride in her Palestinian identity, often wearing kaffiyeh over her curls in public appearances and using henna hand decorations, and always speaking about Palestine and the plight of the Palestinian people.

Abortion Pill Is a Lifeline for Women

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On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily paused a lower court ruling that had blocked telehealth prescriptions of the drug mifepristone nationwide. This action allows the continued use of the medication — a lifeline for millions of women facing unwanted or medically contraindicated pregnancy, especially in states that have severe limitations or outright bans on abortion. Without the right to control their own bodies and decide whether and when to have children — not only in cases of rape or incest but at any time — women can never achieve genuine equality in a society where the capitalist class profits handsomely from their second-class status.

Stop War Threats Against Cuba! End Inhuman Oil Blockade!

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In response to Washington’s escalating aggression against Cuba, solidarity groups across the United States have started to organize protests, speak outs, and educational teach-ins to counter U.S. government propaganda and mobilize popular opposition to U.S. warmongering. We publish here information about several such actions recently called in Miami, New York City, and nationwide. We encourage the largest possible turnout in each case and the emulation of such solidarity activities across the United States and other countries.

‘A People Unbroken, Unbowed’ – Eyewitness Report from Cuba

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Amid Washington’s increasing threats against the Cuban people, the 2026 Labor and Youth Activists Delegation to Cuba traveled to Havana to join the celebration of the international working-class holiday on May 1 and to add their voices to those demanding “U.S. Hands Off Cuba. End the Blockade!” The delegation met with Cubans to learn about the gains of their revolution in health care and education; about the advances in equality and social justice for women, Afro-Cubans, and other historically oppressed groups; and about Cuba’s historic role in aiding the struggles of working people and the oppressed worldwide through its internationalist missions. Delegation members also witnessed firsthand some of the devastating consequences of Washington’s extreme hostility to this record over the last 66 years and its recent efforts to starve Cuba into submission by blockading petroleum supplies and threatening military attack. Cuban American Gerardo Delgado from Miami was part of this delegation; his report is published below for the information of our readers.

The New York Times Shameful Roadmap for U.S. War on Cuba

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On May 16, 2026, the New York Times published the article “With Possible Raúl Castro Indictment, U.S. Eyes Venezuela Playbook.” Reporting on the May 13 visit to Cuba by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliff, the article trumpeted the ultimatum the CIA chief publicly delivered in Havana on behalf of the Trump administration: “Shut down Russian and Chinese listening posts and take steps to open the economy.” This article by Pete Seidman, a leader of the Miami Coalition to End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba, is an apt response to the New York Times hack piece promoting U.S. imperialist aggression against Cuba and its people.

Labor Leaders, Jewish Groups Defend U. of Michigan Professor’s Pro-Palestinian Remarks

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At the University of Michigan May 2, 2026, commencement ceremony, history professor Derek Peterson delivered a short speech in which he celebrated many of those who have fought for social justice at the school. At the end of his remarks, Peterson also praised the “pro-Palestinian student activists, who have over these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” The backlash was swift. U of M president Domenico Grasso apologized for Peterson’s remarks, and the speech was condemned by pro-Israel Jewish organizations and outlets. But leaders of the American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers, as well as other academics and Jewish groups, quickly spoke out in defense of Peterson. Four of these responses are published in this post.

Tucker Carlson’s Bigotry and Antisemitism

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In this transcript of a video posted May 11, 2026, on the “Beinart Notebook,” author and commentator Peter Beinart presents convincing evidence about Tucker Carlson’s bigotry and Jew hatred. Carlson is a well-known right-wing commentator and talk-show host. This discussion is timely. Carlson and other ultra-rightists have recently broken with U.S. president Donald Trump over the Iran war, claiming that Israel forced Washington into attacking Tehran. In doing so, Carlson and company have openly or covertly advanced antisemitic conspiracy theories.

‘I Discovered Anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m Glad It Lives on There’

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“At the University of Michigan’s recent commencement ceremony, history professor Derek Peterson delivered a five-minute speech in which he celebrated all those who have fought for justice at the university, my alma mater,” wrote Gayle Kirshenbaum in the May 8 issue of Forward, a “Jewish, independent, non-profit,” as it is self-described. “Invoking our legendary sports-focused fight song, he asked the crowd to ‘sing’ for suffragist Sarah Burger, who battled to get women admitted as students; for Moritz Levi, Michigan’s first Jewish professor; for all the students who fought for racial justice at Michigan as part of the Black Action Movement; and for the ‘pro-Palestinian student activists, who have over these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza,’” Kirshenbaum said. This is a thoughful article on why conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism hurts the struggle to eradicate Jew hatred.

Cuba Street: A Model of Community Hygiene in Old Havana’s Heart

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This article describes a concerted effort by local residents, the city administration, and private businesses to end the problem of trash accumulation in a part of Cuba’s capital city, Havana. Since it was published in October 2025, this problem has become more acute and widespread as a consequence of the U.S. oil blockade, which, since January 3, 2026, has stopped virtually all petroleum shipments from reaching Cuba. The resulting fuel shortage, has, among other things, made it difficult to almost impossible for garbage trucks to operate and regularly collect trash. The setbacks due to this cruel and unusual escalation of the U.S. blockade notwithstanding, this article describes an example of the initiatives ordinary Cubans take to improve their daily lives in the middle of extreme adversities caused by Washington’s decades-old economic war.

Trump’s May 1 Escalation Against Cuba Signals Danger of Military Aggression

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This essay by Isaac Saney, a professor of Black studies and history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, accurately draws out the implications for the Cuba solidarity movement of Trump’s May 1 executive order against Cuba. Issued, not accidentally, as millions marched in Cuba on International Workers’ Day, Trump’s escalation “signals failure, desperation, and the danger of military aggression,” Saney explains.

Cuba: Millions March on May Day, Denounce Threats of U.S. Invasion

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HAVANA, Cuba, May 1, 2026 — Beginning at 3:30 a.m., Cuban working people from all over this city began mobilizing to answer the growing threats of an invasion by the U.S. government, converging on four different rally sites in the country’s capital. In Havana, 500,000 participated in the four rallies, according to the Cuban media, the reports of which are corroborated by magnificent aerial photos. An estimated 5.2 million people turned out in May Day rallies in cities and towns across the country.

Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (II)

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This is the second of two parts of a Jewish Currents dispatch. At the end of 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to about two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank — all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 — to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories.“ The resulting testimonies are difficult to read,” says the introduction to these stories. “They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years.“

Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (I)

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At the end of 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to about two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank — all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 — to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories. “The resulting testimonies are difficult to read,” says the introduction to these stories. “They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years.” This is the first of two parts.

Youth and Labor Delegation Visits Cuba

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Fifty young people and other political activists joined the 2026 Labor and Youth Activists Delegation to Cuba, sponsored by the Los Angeles U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee. They traveled to Havana to participate in activities organized by the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC), join the Cuban people in celebrating the international working-class holiday on May Day, and learn about Cuba firsthand. During their trip, they were interviewed by the CTC newspaper Trabajadores, which published this article on April 26 on the delegation’s work.

Iran Stymies U.S.-Israeli War

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It’s been two months since the allied U.S. and Israeli militaries launched their war against Iran. A war of plunder, aimed at regaining access to Iran’s resources — primarily oil and natural gas — and confronting China’s growing economic influence in the region and the world. Despite the mass destruction, and degrading of its military capabilities, Iran has been able to inflict major damage on U.S military assets and on oil and other facilities in the Gulf and nearby countries allied with Washington. Iran has so far stymied the U.S.-Israeli war, providing a bit of much needed breathing space to revolutionary Cuba.

Strategies & Tactics for Social Change

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In the past year, millions in the United States have protested Washington’s attacks on democratic rights, ICE terror, and imperialist war. Among them are many young people, alongside others who have never before taken to the streets. These activists are testing strategies and tactics and debating how to push back Trump’s march toward one-man rule. Many of the questions they face have been posed before, perhaps most notably during the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States in the 1960s and early ’70s. As a contribution to the discussion of strategy and tactics in today’s struggles, World-Outlook is publishing the 1971 column “Some Comments on the Mayday Actions” by Fred Halstead, a central leader of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States.

Disquiet Grows in U.S. Military, Fueled by War on Iran

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The Center on Conscience and War, which helps run a 24-hour GI Rights Hotline, is set up to inform members of the U.S. armed forces about their options for military discharge. The group has recently experienced a spike in calls by active-duty servicemen and women asking how they can become conscientious objectors. In this article, Bill Galvin, the center’s counseling director, told National Public Radio in early April that nearly all the callers he talks to mention the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war, which killed at least 165 civilians, most of them children. A preliminary assessment determined the U.S. military was at fault.

U.S. Oil Blockade Punishes Cuban People, Medical Science

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Nothing illustrates the criminality, hypocrisy, and brutality of Washington’s economic war against Cuba better than its impact on the island’s universal healthcare system and highly advanced biotech sector. And the consequences can be felt far beyond Cuba’s shores in countries around the globe. When the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and broke the grip of the capitalist class on the island, one of the first priorities was to take some of the country’s wealth that previously went into the purses of the dictator and his cronies and turn it toward extending healthcare to the masses of people. That progress is now threatened, along with the lives of the Cuban people and of others internationally who rely on life-altering treatments and medicines from the island, as the article that follows details.

‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: Israel’s Demolition of Gaza

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“Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,” an upcoming book by British-Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, catalogs, in unflinching and exacting detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped Gaza and its surroundings to make these areas unlivable for the Palestinian people. This article, which first appeared in the London Review of Books, is a powerful preview of “Ungrounding.”

Colorado Meatpackers Ratify New Contract

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On April 12, 2026, members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 ratified a new agreement with the JBS Swift beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. A union press release announcing the vote — with 93% in favor — said the contract contained “all gains, countless improvements, and not a single concession.”
“This … is a testament to the incredible resolve of our members,” said Local 7 president Kim Cordova. “These workers stood together on the picket line for three weeks, through extreme weather, because they knew their worth and refused to be disrespected.”

Cuban Gov’t: ‘Bay of Pigs Is Today and Forever!’

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Today, April 17, is the 65th anniversary of the launching of the U.S.-organized invasion of Cuba. In less than 72 hours of combat in April 1961 near the Bay of Pigs, Cuba’s revolutionary militias, police, and armed forces defeated the assault by 1,500 mercenaries armed, trained, supported, and deployed by Washington. To mark that weighty victory for the world’s working people, we publish the statement Cuba’s revolutionary government issued today on the occasion of this important anniversary.

U.S. Blockade of Cuba Puts Special Burden on Women

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Women in Cuba are among those most directly affected by Washington’s criminal blockade of the island’s access to fuel. The U.S. blockade of oil shipments has strained the Cuban electrical grid to the breaking point, limiting critical services such as medical care and delivery of medications, transportation of food and other essential commodities, access to clean water, and education. This article and video from Belly of the Beast illustrate the hardships, but also the resilience and fighting spirit, of Cuban women today.

Colorado Meatpackers End Strike, Will Return to Work

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GREELEY, COLORADO — On April 4, 2026, United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 announced it was ending a strike against the meatpacking giant JBS Swift here “after JBS agreed to return to the negotiating table,” according to the union’s press release. Local 7 said bargaining has been set for April 9-10, which was the basis for the decision to return to work on April 7. There has been no other motion toward resolution of the issues that sparked the strike. This article provides eyewitness coverage from the picket lines that World-Outlook reporters visited on April 3, the day before the walkout ended.

Cuba: Anti-Imperialist Bicycle Rally Floods Malecón

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In this post, Belly of the Beast reports on a rousing bicycle rally that took over Malecón, the seaside promenade of Havana, Cuba’s capital, on April 2, 2026, to denounce Washington’s economic war — which the Trump administration escalated in January by blockading virtually all fuel oil from entering the island nation — and to defend Cuba’s sovereignty. Belly of the Beast also reports on the first Russian oil tanker that broke the U.S. blockade on March 31, delivering “more than 700,000 barrels of oil, the first shipment in three months to reach the island,” and on the effects on the Cuban people of the ongoing U.S. siege.

Refuting Slanders Against Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba

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In this article, Current Affairs correspondents Alex Skopic and Nathan J. Robinson focus on refuting slanders against the Nuestra América convoy to Cuba in the U.S. media — mostly the conservative press, which “spun the aid mission into a vanity trip, ignoring the issue of the fuel embargo and its effects,” as they note. The authors went to Cuba in March as part of the convoy, which brought tons of humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, food, bicycles, and solar panels, from about 30 countries around the world. This initiative was organized in response to the siege of Cuba by Washington, which at the end of January intensified its decades-long economic war on the country by blockading virtually all fuel oil from entering the island.

‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’

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This is a Cuban American’s story from the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba. “I traveled to Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father. I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”

‘No Kings, No ICE, No War’: Millions Protest Across U.S.

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On March 28, 2026, marches and rallies took place in about 3,300 cities, towns, and villages across the United States for the third national “No Kings” mobilization. More than 8 million turned out, a significant increase over the October 2025 participation, marking an historic overall turnout of protesters and an unprecedented number of individual actions. Nearly two thirds of the actions took place in smaller cities or towns. The No Kings mobilizations have drawn forces with a variety of concerns under an umbrella of opposition to the increasing concentration of power in the executive branch and threats to basic democratic rights — including due process, free speech, and voting rights — posing the danger of one-man rule.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Activists Honor, Learn from Civil Rights Movement

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On March 8, 2026, Minnesotans active in the fight against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) siege in their state traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join a commemoration of the day in 1965 known as “Bloody Sunday.” On March 7, 1965, police — some on horseback and armed with Billy clubs and tear gas — attached civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted a 50-mile march to the state capital of Montgomery. The decision by the Minnesota Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) to take 100 immigrant rights leaders from the upper Midwest to Selma is a sign of the connections being made as a result of the fight against the ICE “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota since the beginning of this year. Those who mobilized for over three months to defend immigrant communities are looking for lessons of the past that can help strengthen their struggle. They are making connections with others involved in the struggle for social justice — today’s activists and veterans of past resistance. 

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (II)

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This is the second of two parts with excerpts from the transcript of a press conference Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez gave on March 13, 2026, as the Cuban people continued to resist Washington’s siege on their country. With characteristic frankness and transparency, Díaz-Canel responded to Trump’s threats and to journalists’ questions about the everyday challenges the Cuban people are diligently working to overcome. Challenges resulting from Washington’s relentless economic war, escalated recently with the U.S. blockade preventing any petroleum from reaching the country.

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (I)

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On March 13, 2026, as the Cuban people continued to resist Washington’s siege on their country, Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met with reporters in Havana. With characteristic frankness and transparency, Díaz-Canel responded to Trump’s threats and to journalists’ questions about the everyday challenges the Cuban people are diligently working to overcome, resulting from Washington’s economic war, intensified recently with the U.S. blockade preventing any oil from reaching the country. This is the first of two parts.

‘Israel Has Become Dangerous for Jews Around the World’

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For the last 2 ½ years, Israel has been carrying out what seems like an endless war of attrition — against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and now against Lebanon and Iran. In this article, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in the occupied territories, explains how the Israeli regime’s claim that it does so in the name of all Jewish people around the globe endangers Jews worldwide by feeding the flames of antisemitism. TAn antisemitism advocated more and more openly, implicitly or explicitly, by the ultraright — as was the case with the rise of fascism prior to World War II — and threatens to enter the mainstream of bourgeois politics.

Cuban Leader: ‘Do We Talk or Negotiate with the Trump Administration’?

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Cuban leader Ernesto Limia Díaz is a historian and writer. Here he provides historical context to the recent revelations by Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez that Havana is holding talks with the Trump administration after Washington imposed a blockade of petroleum shipments to Cuba and threatened the overthrow of the Caribbean nation’s revolutionary government.

‘Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for United Response’

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NEW YORK CITY — About 225 delegates representing organizations across the United States and Canada attended the conference “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” In welcoming delegates to the meeting, Ike Nahem of the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, said: “The conference is taking place at an ominous time. A time of imperialist war in the Mideast and intervention in our hemisphere, marked by the January 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, and the siege of Cuba under the U.S. blockade of petroleum to the country.” Nahem called on delegates to focus on actions that represent a united response to this qualitative turn of events in the world situation.

Oppose Gov’t Censorship of Iran War Coverage

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On March 14, 2025, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head Brendan Carr took another shot at the fundamental right of freedom of the press. Using the language with which the administration of U.S. president Donald Trump has answered every criticism of its policies, Carr wrote on his social media account: “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.” Carr’s threat is the latest volley in efforts by the Trump administration to undermine freedom of the press and free speech and censor the news. As Washington prosecutes its broadly unpopular war against Iran, these attempts to block access to facts and information are intensifying, providing more evidence of the march toward authoritarian rule that has characterized the course of this administration from day one.

Colorado Meatpackers Strike over Wages, Safety

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On March 16, 2026, for the first time since the 1985 strike against Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, workers walked out at a U.S. meat-packing plant, this time in Greeley, Colorado, just north of Denver. After local negotiations with JBS broke down on March 6 this year, United Food & Commercial Workers Local 7 president Kim Cordova said, “The goal of negotiations is never to go on strike, but when the company violates workers’ rights and ignores workers’ concerns about safety and health, the company gives workers no choice but to stand together in solidarity and show the company that they cannot be silenced.”

The Fight Against Fascism and the Right to Free Speech

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The mass resistance to the Trump administration’s attempt to terrorize immigrants and other working people in Minnesota highlighted issues of strategy and tactics in the struggle to defend democratic rights and put the brakes on Trump’s march toward one-man rule. In the spirit of drawing on the lessons from working-class history to facilitate making disciplined and thoughtful decisions in today’s struggles, World-Outlook published the three-part series Strategy & Tactics in Fighting Racist, Fascist Attacks. As a follow-up, we publish the materials below from the Education for Socialists publication The Fight Against Fascism in the USA.

Minnesota Resistance to ICE Siege: Lessons for Labor

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Among the many important lessons that can be taken from the Minnesota resistance to ICE is the role that organized labor can play in struggles for social justice. Unions from the Minnesota Education Federation to the Service Employees International Union to the Amalgamated Transit Union helped organize some of the multitude of protest actions in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not only did their participation help broaden the fight, but it is also proving to have strengthened the labor movement and individual unions. One example is outlined in this article by Minneapolis letter carrier Emmett Bongaarts, first published by Labor Notes. His branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers organized two protests during the ICE siege to demand that ICE stop using postal property to stage its raids; individual members of the local also participated in activities to help defend their immigrant neighbors. Organizing around immigration spurred a number of union members to start attending local meetings for the first time.

‘The Six Mile Circle: A Sea Story’

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Three quarters of the earth’s surface is covered by water, an expanse so vast and deep, the power of tides and waves so immense, it is hard to imagine that we tiny creatures can have any impact on it at all. But Syd Stapleton’s latest novel gives a chilling portrayal of the damage already done to the oceans — and the ongoing destruction — by humans, the result of the greed of corporations and the governments that serve them. “The Six Mile Circle: A Sea Story” is fiction. But what Stapleton presents is very real — and well researched. He draws on his own experience at sea to paint a detailed picture of the life of a mariner. Frank Tomasini, the novel’s main character, has signed on as a deckhand and cook on ocean-going tugboats and barges making runs between the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. These barges are loaded with freight along with some unexpected cargo. When one of the hulls is mysteriously pumped out in the middle of the ocean, a fellow deckhand gets sick and ultimately dies after contact. Frank knows he has to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Cuban Athletes: An ‘Unusual and Extraordinary Threat’?

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PHOENIX, Arizona — As baseball fans around the world geared up for the Sixth World Baseball Classic, eight members of the Cuban team, along with their pitching coach and other support personnel, were denied visas to come to the United States. As a result, just 11 players were left to face a roster of 37 from the Kansas City Royals on March 3, 2026, and 33 from the Cincinnati Reds the following day. The Los Angeles Hands Off Cuba Committee (LAHOC), together with 5 affiliated Cuba solidarity committees in other cities, has been spearheading a campaign to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee to demand that all athletes be allowed to compete. The Trump administration’s policy is a direct violation of the IOC charter and is especially egregious as Washington prepares to host the games.

Venezuela After the U.S. Coup: Interview with Federico Fuentes

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Federico Fuentes, a long-time Venezuela solidarity activist, was quoted at length in the two-part news analysis “Washington’s Conquest in Venezuela” that World-Outlook published last month. In the full interview published here, Ashley Smith of the online journal Tempest talks with him about the U.S. attack, Maduro’s regime, and the urgency of building resistance to Trump’s “vicious new imperialism.”

Opinions Shift Among Cuban Americans: ‘We Want Engagement, Not Escalation’

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In this column, Cuban-American Danny Valdes explains that Washington’s myth about the source of the Cuba’s economic challenges has been exposed, most recently and most clearly, by U.S. president Donald Trump. “There’s an embargo. There’s no oil, there’s no money, there’s no anything,” Trump said last month. “There is … a growing shift,” Valdes adds. “Whether in Miami or in New Jersey, we are today seeing a wave of Cuban Americans who are mobilizing to demand engagement, rather than escalation.”

End the Bombing of Iran; No Blood for Oil!

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U.S., Israel Hands Off Iran

The massive bombing of Iran unleashed by the U.S. and Israeli governments on February 28, 2026, has thrust the Middle East into a regional war. This is an imperialist war shaking the Mideast and threatening world peace. It has set back prospects for the Iranian people to eventually rid themselves of the oppressive regime in Tehran. It is a war for oil. Ranked third after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, Iran sits atop one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Taking control of these enormous assets would put the U.S. military in a better position to face a future war with China — Washington’s top competitor. All this is done at the expense of working- and middle-class people in Iran and across the region.

Revolution and Counter-revolution in Iran: Origins of Clerical Regime

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This article was first published by World-Outlook on May 6, 2024, as the second of the two-part news analysis “Iran-Israel Shadow War: Its Role in Mideast Conflict.” We are re-publishing it now to bring it to the attention of all our readers — including more than 100 who have subscribed since it first appeared — because it provides valuable background information relevant to understanding current events in the Middle East.