Category: Cuba

  • ‘Israel’ in Latin America

    ‘Israel’ in Latin America

    This study was presented at a symposium in Cuba, arranged by the International Secretariat for Solidarity with the Arab People and their Central Cause, Palestine. The importance of the Israeli military role in Latin America can be traced back to imperialism’s defeat in Vietnam, which for a time diminished the US’s capacity to intervene directly…

  • Joe Kaye & Sarah E. Wright – Memories of Cuba [Video] | People’s Forum

    Hear Joe share his & Sarah E. Wright’s beautiful memories of visiting Cuba, witnessing the early fruits of the Revolution, and welcoming Fidel Castro to Harlem in 1960. The full video discussion is available from The People’s Forum.

  • “Progressives” & Anti-Cuban Doomsayers

    Everyone knows that Cuba has been going through an acute crisis in the past few years, a crisis in part the result of the US policy of destabilization (the economic blockade), in part the result of the collapse of the socialist countries, and in part – and this is left out of the contributing factors…

  • With Friends Like These (Workers International)

    Just as a football coach knows that one cannot repeatedly plow through the middle of the line, that sometimes one has to run to the right, sometimes a little to the left, and sometimes far to the left in order to keep the opposition off balance, so those who wield political power understand the need…

  • Cuba Trip Impressions (1991)

    Originally published in Working People’s News – April 21, 1991 Thirty-one years ago, Sarah E. Wright, the great novelist and poet, was invited as part of a delegation of African-American writers, to attend a celebration of the revolutionary holiday July 26th, in this case the first celebration in a free Cuba. A month before her…

  • The Attack on the Moncada Brigade and the Battle of New York City

    On July 26. 1953, before many of us were even born, a small group of Cuban patriots led by Fidel Castro attacked an army barracks called Moncada. The attack was put down and many of the patriots were murdered after being taken prisoner. Fidel Castro was himself captured, put on trial and sentenced to over…

  • Letter to Editors of Granma (1990)

    Sisters and Brothers: I salute the magnificent courage of the Cuban Communist Party and its leadership, headed by Fidel, its uncomprising steadfastness to principle, as so many Communist Parties outside Eastern Europe as well as inside are becoming uprooted before the intense gales of world reaction. I trust you received my prior letter in which…

  • The Holocaust & Israel

    After the mounds of bones at Auschwitz, the incinerators and gas chambers, we understood those who said, “Never Again!“ We thought we understood. Except while saying, “Never Again!” they told the Palestinians they could not become citizens of the state called Israel, explaining to the world that the Jews, a chosen race of people, had…