Bad days for Gordon. As the British ruling class argues with itself over "credibility" and stolen policies, an article from the Union of Young Communists' newspaper Juventud Rebelde (Rebel Youth) gives the Cuban view of Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown's warmongering opportunism.
Cuba produces a report on the effects of the blockade.The US blockade of Cuba has deprived the island of more than $89 billion, and $3 billion just in the last year. The political war against Cuban socialism is also an economic war against the people of Cuba. 'The Cuban people will not give up its sovereignty or its right to self-determination and, despite the sanctions, will continue to maintain the efforts begun 49 years ago to build a society based on justice and solidarity that disinterestedly offers aid in a spirit of solidarity to other nations, including the United States.'Reading the enemy's language. The president of Cuba's national assembly Ricardo Alarcon, speaking on 'Democracy and 21st-Century Socialism' in Venezuela.
Reading the enemy's language. The president of Cuba's national assembly Ricardo Alarcon, speaking on 'Democracy and 21st-Century Socialism' in Venezuela.
Cuba's self-criticism. Fidel Castro provides a fierce commentary on Cuba's struggle to advance socialism in a world dominated by the instabilities of capitalism.
Vilma Espin, 1930-2007. To mark the death of the revolutionary leader of the Cuban Women's Federation (FMC) we reproduce an article from 1989, in which she talks about the prospects for womens liberation. Espin was a committed member of the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee, and a member of the Council of State of Cuba. She played an active role in the 26th July Movement before the revolution, and was a founding member of the FMC, an organisation which has developed to include more than 3.5 million Cuban women. What she helped Cuba to achieve stands as an inspiration to socialists and oppressed people everwhere.
The English Submarine. Fidel Castro on the latest military advance for British imperialism.
*New* Fidel Castro speech from 1961 An archive speech on Marxism and the need for a revulutionary party. With important lessons for today's movements in Latin America and elsewhere.
Victory to the Venezuelan revolution! Following another landslide election victory the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has called for a united socialist party to push forward the movement towards socialism. He dedicated his election triumph to the Cuban people and their leader Fidel Castro.
Viva Cuba newsletter no.42 With news on Cuba's victory at the UN, the envrionmental revolution, the Cuban Five, Raul Castro and more...
Defend civil and political rights! A Rock around the Blockade activist in Dundee has been targeted by police for the 'crime' of leafletting for the Cuban speaking tour. Support the Heathfield Defence Campaign!
SPEAKING TOUR ANNOUNCED!From 21 February to 4 March 2008 three leading Cuban comrades will be touring Britain for a tour of public meetings organised by Rock around the Blockade. The tour will be an amazing chance to hear from Cubans about their revolution and about socialism. It is important that as many people as possible contact the campaign now to help prepare publicity, venues etc. and spread the word far and wide. The RMT union are sponsoring the speaking tour and we also need the help of ordinary people to raise the £10,000 target. This is a chance that shouldn't be missed!
Che Guevara dayschool in London. An important chance to learn about Cuba and the revolutionary contrubution of Che Guevara on the 40th anniversary of his death. Guest speakers include Jorge Trujillo Second Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in London, Dr Helen Yaffe Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Professor Theodore McDonald, expert in global health rights at London Metropolitan University. Not to be missed!
Out on the streets of Britain for the Cuban Five. Following Cuba's call for international action for the release of the Five, political prisoners in the US, protests have been held in London, Edinburgh and Manchester.
Medicine for the world's poor. During our 10th brigade to Cuba we visited the Finlay Institute in Havana, a remarkable centre working to create vaccines and medicines not just for Cubans but for oppressed people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Every Cuban project, whether in healthcare or in the military, continues to build on the revolution's tradition of internationalism.
Asylum rights activists speak. "There are no malnourished children or street children in Cuba, and yet Cuba doesn’t have the wealth of Congo or Iraq or Nigeria. It has instead a different system not based on imperialism and capitalist exploitation. In 1959, they kicked out the imperialists and their local sponsors and have been building a different society ever since, a socialist society."
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