American Party of Labor

Superb article from the APL's CIPOML sister organization of Arbeit Zukunft, Germany.

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The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice announced on May 20 and proclaimed for several weeks against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution.

The United States government lacks the legitimacy and jurisdiction to carry out this action. It is a despicable and infamous act of political provocation, based on the dishonest manipulation of the incident that led to the downing, in February 1996, of two aircraft operated by the Miami-based terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue over Cuban airspace, which repeated violations of Cuban airspace for hostile purposes were of common knowledge.

Furthermore, the U.S. government distorts other historical truths about the event it uses as a pretext. It omits, among other details, the numerous formal complaints filed by Cuba during that period with the State Department, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding more than 25 serious and deliberate violations of Cuban airspace committed by the cited organization between 1994 and 1996, in blatant transgression of international law and U.S. legislation itself.

It also ignores public and official warnings issued by Cuban authorities about the inadmissibility of such violations of its airspace and alert messages conveyed directly to the President of the United States about the seriousness and possible consequences of such transgressions.

Cuba’s response to the violation of its airspace constituted an act of legitimate self-defense, protected by the Charter of the United Nations, the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, and the principles of air sovereignty and proportionality.

The United States, which has been a victim of the use of civil aviation for terrorist purposes, does not and would not permit the hostile and provocative violation of foreign aircraft over its territory and would act, as it has demonstrated, with the use of force.

The inaction of the US government in the face of the warnings issued by Cuba at the time, revealed its complicity in the planning and ex*****on from its territory of violent, illegal and terrorist actions against the Cuban government and people, a recurring and systematic practice since the triumph of the Revolution to present day.

It is highly cynical that this accusation is made by the same government that has murdered nearly 200 people and destroyed 57 vessels in international waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific, far from the territory of the United States, with the disproportionate use of military force, for alleged links to drug trafficking operations that were never proven, which qualify as extrajudicial ex*****ons, in accordance with International Law, and murders, according to US laws themselves.

This spurious accusation against the Leader of the Cuban Revolution adds to the desperate attempts by anti-Cuban elements to construct a fraudulent narrative in an effort to justify the collective and ruthless punishment against the noble Cuban people, through the strengthening of unilateral coercive measures, including the unjust and genocidal energy blockade and threats of armed aggression.

Cuba reaffirms its commitment to peace and its firm determination to exercise the inalienable right to self-defense, recognized by the Charter of the United Nations.

The Cuban people reaffirm their unwavering decision to defend the Homeland and its Socialist Revolution and, with the greatest strength and firmness, their unrestricted and unchanging support for Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, Leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Homeland or Death, We Will Prevail.

Havana, May 20, 2026.
“Year of the Centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.”

Across the United States, child labor violations have risen fivefold in a decade. Over 5,000 minors were illegally employed last year alone. Yet instead of strengthening protections, Republican and Democrat lawmakers, the faithful servants of American capital, are systematically erasing them. They are slashing minimum wages for teenagers, eliminating safety databases, and legalizing hazardous work for children.

Let us not mince words: this is not a policy failure. It is the logic of capitalism made manifest.

The Biden administration’s meager enforcement efforts were met with a 97% decline in wage and hour cases under the subsequent administration. The state, regardless of which faction holds office, ultimately serves the interests of capital. When those interested require the exploitation of youth, the state clears the path.

We must not stop our struggle after achieving vital reforms. We need to continue to raise our demands until we establish a system that places human need above private profit. We need socialism.

The working class must call to action the following:

1. The immediate repeal of all state-level rollbacks to child labor protections and the establishment of a uniform, higher federal minimum wage with no sub-minimum “training” exceptions.

2. The codification of federal standards that supersede these regressive state laws, ensuring that no child in any state can be legally employed in hazardous conditions or for exploitative wages.

The fight against child labor exploitation is inseparable from the fight against capitalism itself. Every hour that a teenager works for sub-minimum wage is an hour that weakens the wages of all workers. For every hazardous job a child is forced to take, more poor kids will be driven into the meat-grinder of capitalism to take menial positions that are dangerous, just as they did in the early 20th century.

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The National Lawyers Guild Disability Justice Committee condemns proposed changes to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) that threaten to punish disabled people for surviving through family and community support. These policy shifts represent a continuation of the long-standing use of the law as a tool to discipline poverty, undermine collective care, and isolate disabled people from the very networks that sustain life.

Proposed revisions to SSI rules would reduce or eliminate benefits for disabled people who live with family members, including parents and adult children. These changes would disproportionately impact disabled adults with high support needs, as well as older people forced by economic conditions to rely on shared housing arrangements.

SSI is a program of last resort, providing minimal income to people who are poor and disabled, many of whom have never been able to access wage labor or have been systematically excluded from it. Yet instead of strengthening this lifeline, policymakers continue to impose punitive rules that treat mutual aid, caregiving, and shared survival as grounds for punishment. By counting family support as “income,” the state effectively forces disabled people to choose between basic subsistence and connection to their communities.

This is not administrative reform. It is austerity enforced through bureaucratic violence.

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Lurking in the deepest bowels of Colorado, a coalition calling itself Protect Kids Colorado has mobilized to push three initiatives onto the Nov. 2026 ballot, each draped in the rhetoric of child protection but rooted in the reactionary impulses of the ruling class. This campaign exemplifies a deeper contradiction within capitalist society: the selective outrage of Christian nationalist factions who proclaim to safeguard “girls in sports” from transgender participation, framing it as a defense of biological purity and fairness. Yet, this same moral fervor evaporates when confronting the systemic exploitation embedded in the capitalist order.

These measures, if passed, would not only restrict transgender youth from essential healthcare and fair participation but would also enforce rigid, state-sanctioned definitions of gender that serve to police bodies in service to outdated hierarchies.

These groups, often aligned with MAGA ideology, rally against transgender girls as existential threats while turning a blind eye—or worse, offering defenses—for capitalist pe*****les whose crimes are shielded by wealth and power. Consider the parade of high-profile figures in bourgeois circles, from financiers like Jeffrey Epstein to political elites entangled in abuse scandals, where accusations of child exploitation are dismissed as “fake news” or reframed as consensual indiscretions. The ruling class’ apparatus, including media conglomerates and legal systems, routinely minimizes these atrocities, allowing predators to evade accountability through settlements, NDAs, and influence peddling.

Capitalism thrives on the commodification of bodies, particularly those of the vulnerable, turning human trafficking and exploitation into profitable industries that bolster the accumulation of capital for the few. The hypocrisy is stark: Republicans accused of shielding pe*****les in the Epstein case, with Democrats charging that GOP refusal to release files protects the elite, while MAGA figures like Trump have been linked to Epstein yet face no reckoning from their base. Right-wing conspiracies like QAnon obsess over fictional pe*****le rings among liberals, diverting attention from real abuses by their own, such as Capitol rioters convicted of child abuse who heckled police for “protecting pe*****les.”

.. Compounding this is the complicity of the Democratic Party, which postures as a progressive counterweight but capitulates at every turn. Facing an electorate manipulated by misinformation and economic anxiety, Democrats have increasingly thrown the transgender community under the bus, offering tepid defenses or outright concessions to gain votes from a misinformed public. Rather than mounting a robust pushback against these anti-trans measures, they prioritize electoral pragmatism, echoing centrist appeals that dilute class struggle into identity politics.

This betrayal stems from their role as the liberal wing of the bourgeoisie, managing capitalism’s crises without challenging its foundations. By allowing reactionary narratives to dominate, framing transgender rights as a wedge issue, they divert attention from the real antagonists: the exploiters who profit from division. The working masses, fragmented along lines of gender, race, and sexuality, are pitted against one another, obscuring the class antagonism that unites them against the owners of production.

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Every red star will blush. With that red flag high, it will mute my cool horizon.

It will breach everywhere—even the canals—

and finally drift to heaven

but it will not be dead.

(M. N., "Red Stars")

Countless demonstrations were held worldwide this weekend to commemorate the 78th year of the Nakba, the ongoing displacement and genocide of the Palestinian people and destruction of Palestinian land by Zionist Israel.

Pictured here are demonstrators in Orlando, FL, marching to raise awareness and support for ending the genocide and calling on people to participate in the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) campaign to defund and disarm Israel.

An overwhelming number of passers-by vocalized their support of the demonstration, signaling the masses' stance denouncing Israel's actions not just since Oct. 7, 2023, but since May 15, 1948 when the Nakba began.

The whole world is watching. People can no longer deny the fact that a genocide is taking place before our eyes. The best time to organize was yesterday; the second-best time is today! All power to the working people! Free Palestine!

Please help us draw attention to the hunger strike in ICE's concentration camp in Adelanto, California.

The facility is a hotspot for beatings, overcrowding, physical and verbal abuse, denial of visitation, rampant spread of disease, and medical neglect. This is evidenced by numerous human rights lawsuits mentioning Adelanto, since GEO Group took over the facility in 2011.

At least five people have died in Adelanto, or shortly after being transferred from it, since Trump's second term began.

People inside have begun a hunger strike, with the demand that the facility be shut down. They are already being punished for striking, so they ask that we spread awareness as widely as possible.

Share this post, then keep organizing towards the abolition of ICE!

"As the Lakota say, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ: we are all related. The Indigenous struggle is inseparable from the movement for a truly free, democratic, and progressive society; one that finally represents the collective will of the people rather than the insatiable greed of the bourgeoisie."

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