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.

 Viva Cuba newsletter no.43  With news on progress in the Cuban economy, health, Guantanamo Bay...

 Answering the Trotskyists.  A reply to the middle class Cuba-bashers on the left.

 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...

 'We are experiencing an exceptional moment in history. Many thought that the demise of the socialist block and the collapse of the Soviet Union would spell the end for the international revolutionary movement... In the eyes of the world, the so-called ?rusade on terrorism is unavoidably heading down the path to a humiliating defeat.'  General Raul Castro, Second Sectetary of the Cuban Communist Party and acting President of Cuba in Fidel Castro's illness, speaks on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. At an enormous rally in Havana the Cuban masses marched defiantly in defence of their revolution, at the same time celebrating the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro.

 Cubans debate productive problems under socialism.  "In Cuba, a developing country, socialism was not born to a highly developed capitalist nation, as Karl Marx had described. We came into an underdeveloped economic structure that takes very long to change. The good news is, our socialist property can be planned, and therefore you have a long-term strategy in your hands." In the past year Cuba has entered a process of self-criticism aimed at wiping out corrupt and bureaucratic tendencies. Here we have a series of three articles produced in Juventud Rebelde, showing how the Cubans are taking a hard look at their system and involving all of society in the search for solutions as they strive to build socialism.

 'An act of genocide'  Speaking at the UN, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque put forward Cuba's position on the economic war waged against Cuba by the US. Shortly after Roque's speech 183 countries voted to lift the blockade, with only the US and its stooges - Israel, Marshall Islands and Palau - voting against. The US, of course, has a veto.

 "We must struggle and work."  Message sent by Cuban Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro, to the people of Cuba and friends from all over the world.

 Viva Cuba newsletter no. 41.  Commemorating the Moncada uprising, and including news on today's struggles in Latin America. Download it, read it, be a part of it in Britain.

 Viva Cuba newsletter #40.  With news of Tony Blair's attacks on Cuba and revolutionary Venezuela. Download it now... read it... get angry... organise with RATB!

 Viva Cuba newsletter no.39.  Download it now.

 The Battle of Ideas: fighting corruption, building socialism in the face of US threats.  Talk given by RATB activist Keith Edwards to the Student Anti-Imperialist Dayschool in London, 4 March 2006.

 Letter of support from Gerardo Hernandez on behalf of the Cuban Five.

 Fidel on Marx, Lenin, the history of socialism, imperialism, and revolution in Cuba and Latin America.  A marathon speech at Havana University. 'The empire shall not come here to set up secret jails in which to torture progressive men and women from other parts of this continent that are today rising to fight for the second and final independence!' .

 Special DOUBLE LENGTH Viva Cuba newsletter!  Reporting on the recent brigade to Cuba as well as news and political analysis. Download it, free, now.

 Free the Five now!  The five Cuban political prisoners in the US have won a new trial but they remain imprisoned by the US state. As Ricardo Alarcon, Cuban parliamentary leader says "The battle for the Five has not reached its end; a new chapter is beginning and we have to keep up the fight in every way we can."

 'Progressive Cuba Bashing'  Anti-imperialist analysis in an article by Richard Levins.

 "We place our trust in the capacity of our peoples to struggle."  Fidel Castro's message to the South Summit in Qatar.

 Cuban leaders expose the real terrorists as agents of imperialism.  Fidel Castro and Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly of People? Power, on the counter-revolutionary terrorist Luis Posada Cariles and his imperial sponsors.

 The Cuban electoral system: dispelling the myths...  Proof that socialism brings democracy for all.

 The oppressed people of the world support Cuban socialism! Why doesn't the SWP?   Rock around the Blockade statement in response to the book 'Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution' - by Mike Gonzalez, Socialist Workers Party, 2004.

 Download:   Video clip of the Rebel Army entering Havana, 1959

 Download:   Video clip of scenes from the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, 1959

 Viva Cuba 31, March/April 2004  Newsletter of Rock around the Blockade

 New Year newsletter from RATB:  Greetings, meetings, events and news

 Speech given by Dr Fidel Castro  President of the Republic of Cuba, at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons. Held in Santiago de Cuba, July 26, 2003

 Fidel Castro on homosexuality  Countering misunderstandings and lies concerning the issue in Cuba

 Che Guevara: A revolutionary example  leaflet (.doc)

 Wear your politics on your sleeve...  with a T-shirt or button badge from RATB

 History of Cuba  Rock around the Blockade educational series

 Ever onward to victory!  Speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the May Day rally held in Revolution Square. Havana, May 1, 2003

 The malign idea is to provoke an armed conflict between Cuba and the United States  President Fidel Castro's televised roundtable appearance detailing recent events in the country

 Transcript of the press conference by the Cuban Foreign Minister on the trials of counter-revolutionaries

 US promotes terrorism against Cuba  A Cuban who beat up his family, hijacked a plane and flew into the arms of the Miami mafia, has received a hero's welcome in the USA under the Cuban Adjustment Act, which stimulates emigration by giving automatic residential status to any Cuban who reaches US borders illegally.

 If you think it is bad here...  By the end of 2001 United States prisons held a total of 1,962,220 prisoners and in total nearly 6.6 million people were on probation, in prison or jail, or on parole. This is 3.1% or one in 32 of all adult residents. This is the prison system that the Miami 5 are being held in.

 Rock around the Blockade round-up - "With Che's ideas"  A delegate from Rock around the Blockade joined 200 young people from many countries at a youth seminar held in Havana at the end of November 2002 to commemorate the ideas of Che Guevara on the 35th anniversary of his death.

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