On October 27 Montreal port workers held another one-day strike, while 1,300 pilots at Allegiant are set to vote to authorize a strike after going 8 years without a wage rise.
Cuba has repeatedly failed to bring its electrical grid back up as a result of fuel shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, threatening a social explosion.
Cuba’s economy deteriorates as Washington continues sanctions aimed at starving the country into submission.
The elimination of the fuel subsidy is the beginning of a massive austerity program that would substantially reverse what little remains of the radical reforms associated with the Cuban Revolution.
Workers in Haiti walked out to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry while 600 Hawaii nurses in Honolulu struck over staffing levels.
Last June marked 60 years since the infamous congress of reunification between the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), alongside its supporters in Latin America and Asia, and the Pabloite International Secretariat.
The devastating fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base dealt a serious blow to Cuba’s electric power generating system, fueling the social and political crisis on the island.
A reader has contributed this obituary of the remarkable Cuban musician, composer and band leader Adalberto Álvarez.
The Socialist Equality Party (US) demands the immediate release of Frank García Hernández from house arrest. García Hernández was arrested Sunday during historic protests against the economic crisis and the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thousands protested in and near Havana and other cities throughout the country in the largest wave of demonstrations since 1994.
Deteriorating economic conditions following the collapse of tourism and the fall-off in Venezuelan subsidies have led increased numbers to attempt the dangerous journey to the US.
The announcement is a continuation of the rollback of Obama’s normalization of relations as the island has been hit hard by COVID-19 and a deepening economic crisis.
After fostering an abortive mercenary invasion aimed at overthrowing Venezuela’s government and murdering its president, the US placed Caracas on a list of governments deemed uncooperative in the “war on terrorism.”
While Cuba appears to have effectively slowed the spread of COVID-19, the collapse of tourism has left huge numbers of workers unemployed and threatens imports of needed goods.
In an interview with a Pabloite publication, the conference’s organizer spells out its explicitly anti-Trotskyist character.
A collection of pseudo-lefts and Pabloite revisionists was invited to Havana to suppress the revolutionary content of Trotskyism.
The White House aims is to exacerbate an economic crisis on the island that has already produced shortages and rationing of food and energy.
The Trump administration is imposing unilateral sanctions aimed at punishing foreign corporations, particularly European and Canadian, with investments in Cuba.
The new constitution signals the preparation for an all-out assault on the Cuban working class and what remains of the social welfare measures established through the Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban government is cutting back on the consumption of energy and other goods as a result of stagnant growth, a fall in exports and the decline in oil subsidies from Venezuela.
