Year: 2026

Cubans took to the streets on May 1, 2026, under the slogan La Patria se defiende — the Homeland is Defended. The Central de Trabajadores de Cuba framed this year’s mobilization as an act of […]

In the early 1980s, as the Reagan administration’s assault on labor accelerated and plant closures gutted the industrial Midwest, a grassroots campaign put forward a demand that U.S. ruling-class politicians dismissed as utopian: a job […]

The petrodollar system took shape in the 1970s, sealed by Henry Kissinger. Saudi oil would be sold in dollars, Washington would protect the brutal Saudi monarchy, and Gulf oil profits would flow back into U.S. […]

The USS George H.W. Bush did not take the direct route to the war zone near Iran. The nuclear-powered supercarrier left Norfolk, Virginia, on March 31, then sailed more than 11,000 miles around the Cape […]

April 25 — Cold rain didn’t stop people today from marching in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. The day before was the revolutionary writer’s 72nd birthday, which, like his previous 44 birthdays, was spent in […]

The Treasury Department announced April 24 secondary sanctions against Hengli Petrochemical, a private Chinese oil refinery at the port of Dalian with daily processing capacity of about 400,000 barrels. Treasury also sanctioned approximately 40 shipping […]