October 2026

No compromise on trans lives

October 31, 2026 David Forbes

Content Warning: This piece deals directly with genocidal anti-trans bigotry, including slurs. In social media posts on Oct. 5, Donald Trump called Annie Andrews, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate for South Carolina, a slur. Specifically, he […]

Ebola workers strike in Congo as the United States goes after the mines

October 31, 2026 Gary Wilson

The United States government has a detailed plan for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It covers Congo’s copper and cobalt, and the mineral rights the United States says it is getting. For the Ebola […]

Suicidios y privatización de servicios

October 31, 2026 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Son muchas las crisis que azotan a esta colonia llamada Puerto Rico. Su raíz desde luego, es su condición de subordinación, de estar dominada por una potencia extranjera, los Estados Unidos de América que se […]

Our sovereignty is endangered

October 31, 2026 Donald Ramotar

The United Nations vote on the Resolution by Cuba, calling for the United States to end the blockade against that island is deeply revealing. While seven CARICOM countries voted to end the criminal blockade, three […]

‘That’s our job, that’s our right, that’s our privilege’

October 30, 2026 Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is a retired executive board member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He issued this statement for the Oct. 30 International Day of Action of […]

From Genoa to Oakland, dockworkers refuse to load the war

October 30, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Dockworkers on five continents are striking, stopping work and picketing Oct. 30 to keep the ports out of the wars of the United States and Israel. Their banner reads “Dockworkers do not work for war.” […]

Justice for Koran Irvine! Workers demand murder charge against ‘retired’ cop

October 29, 2026 Stephen Millies

Oct. 27 — Hundreds of workers came to Foley Square in lower Manhattan this afternoon to demand justice for their union brother Koran Irvine. The 46-year-old father of two children and Con Ed employee had […]

Salvadoran special forces soldiers marching

Bukele’s invasion of Haiti opens a new front in Washington’s war drive

October 29, 2026 Kim Ives

On Feb. 29, 2024, the Viv Ansanm (Live Together), an alliance of greater Port-au-Prince’s neighborhood armed groups, blocked the capital’s international airport thereby thwarting the return to Haiti of reviled de facto Prime Minister Ariel […]

UN General Assembly approves Cuba’s resolution against U.S. blockade

October 28, 2026 teleSUR

Oct. 28, 2026 On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution presented by Cuba against the U.S. blockade, with 130 votes in favor, 17 against and 25 abstentions. Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Ecuador […]

‘You’re lying again,’ Cuban foreign minister rebukes United States ambassador to the United Nations

October 27, 2026 Resumen

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla responded Oct. 27 to United States Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz during the General Assembly debate on the draft resolution calling for an end to the economic, […]