Category: International

  • “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…

  • Hiding Under the Rock of the Balance of Power

    Across the globe today blows the icy winds of uncontested power. A Great Black Hole, an unprecedented concentration and unprecedented accumulation of capital, is irresistibly drawing to it and swallowing up the universe of the world’s assets, the world’s natural resources and the world’s labor. The enormous power of capital, acting in concert with and…

  • Open Letter to the French Communist Party

    My Ties to the French Communist Party Almost 50 years ago, your great leader Jacques Duclos sent a letter to the Communist Party of the United States which has become part of the treasure house of Party history here and which remains of great significance.Based upon the unity of the Allies in the Second World…

  • The PLO-Israeli Peace Accord – Another Notch in the Gun Barrel of the New World Order

    Notwithstanding the handshakes, the general euphoria and the media ballyhoo, Palestinian hopes for a homeland have been dealt a devastating blow.The “historic breakthrough” began with a carefully choreographed exchange of letters. First, Yasir- Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin containing two essential points: First, the PLO’s recognition…

  • 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…

  • Two Lines of Thought on the Middle East Peace Process

    The debate around the peace process essentially rages around two lines of thought. The first line, pragmatic, considers that it is basing itself on realities, very harsh and painful realities. They see that the US has won a huge victory in the Gulf War, that the war has had disastrous economic effects on the Palestinians,…

  • By Their Deeds Ye Shall Know Them

    The news of the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe and now the Soviet Union has been received with almost universal enthusiasm across the political spectrum. That the Bushes and Thatchers of the world are pleased at the collapse of socialism is quite natural. But that people calling themselves progressive and even socialist find…

  • 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…

  • Open Letter to Joe Slovo & The South African Communist Party

    In these times when socialism has suffered such tragic defeats, when a petty-bourgeois tidal wave has swept over many Communist Parties of the world, particularly the parties formerly presiding over socialist construction. In these times when the dominant political motion Jiaild Wide is capitulation to the might of the trans-   nationals, the banks and…