Engineer Ireraldo Pérez Cardoso told Cuban TV in Matanzas that Cuba will use fuel being unloaded March 31 for “critical facilities like hospitals, educational centers to temporarily alleviate the strain we are confronting.” Behind him, Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin delivers oil.
EDITORIAL

US hands off Cuba! Protest Washington’s war moves!

Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution, example for all

Since making the first socialist revolution in the Americas more than 67 years ago, Cuban workers and farmers have held U.S. imperialism at bay. They continue to do so, despite Washington’s blockade since January that has severely increased the damage…


Oil tanker unloads in Cuba

A Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil docked in Matanzas, Cuba, March 31. It was the first shipment of oil to arrive there since the administration of President Donald Trump imposed a blockade in January, threatening tariffs on any…






Capitalist rulers get richer as workers go to the wall today

Graph shows soaring wealth for four layers of capitalist families, but not the working class.

The deepening worldwide capitalist economic crisis is bearing down hard on the working class, with decent jobs in the U.S. increasingly hard to find and prices for basic necessities continuing to rise, from groceries to electricity, housing, health care, child…

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Indiana oil refinery workers locked out by BP stand strong

Members of Steelworkers Local 7-1 in Whiting, Indiana, picket March 19 after 800 workers were locked out by BP. The union is united, determined to ovecome BP’s union-busting moves.

WHITING, Ind. — One week after being locked out at the British Petroleum’s refinery here, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 stands strong, committed to fighting against BP’s union-busting takeaway contract offer. Over 800 union members were locked out March 19 after…


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.