Havana Arrives At Its 502nd Anniversary with Renewed Happiness

Alejandra Garcia Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell On November 16, Havana marked its 502nd anniversary amid good news: the reopening of borders throughout Cuba, the return of children to the classroom, the rebirth of economic life after almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was no better way to welcome this new anniversary than with…

The World Stands with Cuba

Tanya Wadhwa Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel with college students at a peaceful sit-in organized in Havana on Nvember 14. Photo: Miguel Díaz-Canel/Twitter Social movements and organizations around the world organized demonstrations in solidarity with Cuba and in rejection of the US-backed opposition protests planned in the country for November 15 The US-backed counter-revolutionary protests planned…

Reasons to Love Cuba, its People and its Leadership

Stella Calloni Cuba has been the heart and beacon of Latin America since the beginning of 1959, when we saw those who some called the bearded “angels” come down from the Sierra Maestra mountain range, who had accomplished the greatest feat in our history, defeating the imperial power in the middle of the 20th century,…

Class Struggle and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela as Existential Threats to the U.S.

Ajamu Baraka Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua,…

Juliana Marino: “The Cuban Revolution is Trying to Find Within Itself the Keys to Advance in Freedom, Equality and Prosperity Through its Socialist Model.”

Alejo Brignole The country where security forces violently repress social protests and kill people, especially blacks, with their knees on their necks, and which considers itself imbued with the moral authority to question other nations, their democracy and their freedom, continues to test the island and its history of dignity. The former Argentine ambassador to…

Former Cuban Intelligence Chief Sees Cuban Revolution in Danger

W. T. Whitney, Jr. Fabian Escalante, a founder of Cuba’s state security services, served as head of Cuba’s Department of State Security in 1976 -1996 and vice-minister of the Interior Ministry. After 1993, he headed the Cuban Security Studies Center. In short, his views on threats posed by U.S. government agencies and on protecting Cuba’s…

The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to His Counterparts at CELAC

Laila Tejaldine The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, emerged stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Despite the more than 400 sanctions against Venezuela, despite the 2 assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional…

Should the Cuban Revolution Hold on to Power?

Introduction Part 1: The Account of Comrade Frank García Hernández Versus That of His Overseas ‘Friends’ Part 2: Demanding the Impossible: Left ‘Criticisms’ of Cuba Part 3: The Objective Situation Facing the Cuban Revolution Part IV: Lenin’s New Economic Policy and the Cuban Situation

In Nobody’s Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism

Gerald A. Perreira Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide…

The United States: Six Decades of Criminal Policies against Cuba

Hector Bernardo The invasion of Playa Girón, the bombing of the Barbados airliner, the brutal blockade that increased in the midst of the pandemic, the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, the hotel bombings, Operation Peter Pan, the ZunZuneo project and the disappearance of Cuban diplomats in Argentina are just some of the events that comprise…

The Defense of the Cuban Revolution is a Struggle Against Fascism

José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja) Members of the National Federation of Revolutionary Students “Rafael Ramirez” demonstrate in support of the Cuban Revolution and against US imperialism in front of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, July 17, 2021. (José Luis Granados Ceja) Both Republican and Democrat administrations are willing to work with far-right actors…

July 26th Became a Movement: The Cuban Masses Make History

Gregory E. Williams Members of Cuba’s 26th of July Movement. Today the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba is a museum and a school—fitting, given the Cuban Revolution’s well-known commitment to education. But this was the site of a battle that radically altered the course of history on the island. In the early morning hours…

Cuba: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise

Frei Betto I do not wish the future of Cuba to be like the present of Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras or even Puerto Rico, Few are unaware of my solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. For 40 years I frequently visited the island for work commitments and invitations to events. For a long period, I mediated the…

Netflix, Tavistock and ‘Inception’: What is the ‘Matrix’ of the Collective Dream?

José Negrón Valera “You are invited to a series of online ‘Social Dreaming‘ sessions taking place on Zoom from 12-1:15pm (GMT / BST) every Thursday from March 18 to June 24, 2021, including a post-matrix review.” “Participants share their overnight dreams and free associate with the dreams offered in the matrix to find links, make…

Cuba: Beside the People, With the People and for the People, the Revolution Continues!

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Republic of Cuba, in the act of revolutionary reaffirmation, in the esplanade of La Piragua, Havana, on July 17, 2021, Year 63 of the Revolution. Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution; People of Cuba, Cuban men and women; Compatriots: Long…

Cuba: Statement of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power

Confronting Interference, for an End to the Blockade and Respect for Cuba’s Sovereignty We address Parliaments, Parliamentary Friendship Groups and legislators, to spread our truth in the face of the immense and brutal political-media operation against Cuba, oriented and financed from the United States, deployed through social networks, with automated patterns with hundreds of thousands…

Latin America in Dispute: Interview with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza

In an interview for the program Latin America in dispute, broadcast by the multistate Telesur, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, confirmed that the Bolivarian Government’s commitment to the events promoted by imperialism in the region, such as the assassination in Haiti and the attempts to destabilize Cuba, “it is always for…

The Bay of Tweets: Documents Point to US Hand in Cuba Protests

Alan Macleod HAVANA — Cuba was rocked by a series of anti-government street protests earlier this week. The U.S. establishment immediately hailed the events, putting its full weight behind the protestors. Yet documents suggest that Washington might be more involved in the events than it cares to publicly divulge. As many have reported, the protests,…