Solidarity with Haiti’s people — a Workers World statement
The earthquake that flattened Haiti’s capital and brought a new calamity to millions of people in that heroic but impoverished country has awakened calls for solidarity and aid from the vast majority of the world’s people. The number one priority is... » read this article
William Blum , The Anti-Empire Report / killinghope.org
Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude
from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a
Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to
follow on government, economics, and foreign... » read this article
At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that... » read this article
Reflections by comrade Fidel
The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future.
Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive.
These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the... » read this article
An employee of a CIA front organization that also funds opposition groups in Venezuela was detained in Cuba last week.
An article published in the December 12th edition of the New York Times revealed the detention of a US government contract employee in Havana this past December 5th. The employee,... » read this article
Peter Phillips, Alicia Jrapko , The Daily Censored
We are posting this human interest story to alert readers about the
continuing plight of the Cuban Five freedom fighters locked away in US
Federal Prisons for conducting anti-terrorism actions to protect their
homeland. On December 8, two of the Cuban five will be resentened in
Miami Federal Court.
Translation... » read this article
SPEECH BY FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO
RODRÍGUEZ PARRILLA AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL
ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ITEM "NECESSITY OF ENDING THE
ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EMBARGO IMPOSED
BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST CUBA".
(NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28, 2009
Mr. President,
Permanent Representatives and Delegates,
Alexis
García Iribar was born... » read this article
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
Last October 1st commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong presided over the first parade of the Peoples’ Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square as leader of the Communist Party of China. ... » read this article
Santiago Alba Rico. Translated by Manuel Talens and edited by Machetera , La Jiribilla (Spanish). Tlaxcala (English Translation)
The world upside down: when the cannibal boxers were right but the revolutionaries won the fight.
The so called Juanes’ Concert or Concert for Peace that was held last September 20th at Havana's Revolution Square has provoked the umpteenth exchange of blows among those who favor revolution and those who... » read this article
Cuba is facing the challenge of boosting agricultural output under difficult climate conditions and on soils badly deteriorated by erosion, salinity and other problems. And scientists have a strategic role to play, provided they do not sit in their laboratories but get out into the fields where the action is.... » read this article
August, 29 2009 - On Varadero Beach, a hail of bullets fired from a speedboat hit their target, shooting up the Hotel Melia, one of Cuba's main resort hotels. A week later, the Miami Herald reported that it had received a "war communiqué" boasting that "On the evening of October... » read this article
The concept of nation emerged from the combination of common elements such as history, language, culture, costumes, laws, institutions and others related to the material and spiritual life of human communities.
Bolivar, who worked the great heroic deeds that made him be known as ‘The Liberator’ during his struggle for... » read this article
I wasn’t elected as President to restore capitalism in Cuba or to surrender the Revolution. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism, not to destroy it, affirmed Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday.
While closing the ordinary session of the National Assembly of the People’s Power... » read this article
On May 20, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) published a statement on Cuba declaring that "anyone can browse the internet...unless they are Cuban." To support its claim, RWB offered a videotaped scene filmed in a hotel with a hidden camera in which a Cuban is denied internet access. The organization... » read this article
Elena Mora and John Bachtell , Political Affairs Magazine
"Political Affairs Magazine" interviews Elena Mora and John Bachtell, members of the National Board of the Communist Party USA and who traveled in late May to Cuba for celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. There, they met with representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba and leaders... » read this article
Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana.
But being a young, black woman meant the
challenge she had to face to become what she is... » read this article
US Supreme Court Ruling against the Cuban Five Reverberates in the Media
HAVANA, Cuba, June 16 (acn) The US Supreme Court's refusal to review the case of five Cubans serving long sentences for their efforts to combat terrorism reverberated through the local and international media on Monday.
The judges decided... » read this article
The Organization of American States voted Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
"The Cold War has ended this day in San Pedro Sula," said Honduran President Manuel Zelaya immediately following the announcement. "We begin a new era... » read this article
Editor's Note: Ali Priméra (1942-1985) was a legendary composer, singer, poet and revolutionary activist here in Venezuela and remains so today, even 24 years after his death. In the music video below, he remembers Ché in his song, "Comandante Amigo". Ali's birthname was Rafael Sebastián Primera Rosell but he was known as... » read this article
Cuba's revolution has its origins in the struggle against Spanish colonialism, which intensified in the second half of the 19th century. An uprising in 1895 sealed the fate of Spanish colonialism, but victory was snatched from the people by a US expeditionary force in 1898.
Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti, who... » read this article
February 3, 2010
The courtroom was packed for yesterday's [February 2, 2009] hearing in the breast cancer gene patents case,
a testament to the significance of our challenge. Both sides argued
that the judge should...
Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a
Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to
experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian
Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
Thousands of Afghan civilians have began fleeing their homes before a threatened US military offensive against Taliban fighters.
International Red Crescent aid workers in the southern Afghanistan city
of Marjah, Helmand province, reported that US...
The successful creation of more medical facilities has seen new developments in the capital and outside. A post-operative "village" has been assembled in tents in an area called Delmas 30. Patients will be taken there...
Israel submitted its formal response
last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and
Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel
defended its conduct and pledged to...
The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist
Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will
greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and
criticised by rights organisations and activists.
The interior ministry is ready...
Seven young doctors have
just arrived at the Croix des Bouquets field
hospital. They have come from the United States and
wish "to help their Cuban brothers and sisters in
attending to the suffering Haitian...
MOSCOW
- The leader of democratically elected Palestinian movement Hamas met
here Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on
efforts to reunify the two main Palestinian independence movements.
"We met to pursue...
A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today
that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international
activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's Ramallah offices. The two will...
After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian
Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian
ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...