By Yimel Díaz Malmierca on April 29, 2024 in Havana
Mark Friedman and Brenda Lopez during the visit of the U.S. delegation to the Fidel Castro Center. Photo: Yimel Díaz
After months of intense coordination, almost a thousand foreigners are already in Cuba, motivated by solidarity and interested in participating in the celebrations for May Day and in the International Meeting organized every year on this date. Some of them arrived weeks before to take part in improvement and training activities coordinated by the Union of Cuban Workers (CTC) and the regional representation of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Havana. (more…)
By Razones de Cuba, photos: Bill Hackwell on April 30, 2024
Plaza of the Revolution, May 1, 2006,
Every year, May Day becomes an emblematic date in Cuba, where workers and the people in general take to the streets to commemorate their historic struggle for better working conditions and reaffirm their commitment to the Revolution. Tomorrow this tradition will once again be on display in the streets of the towns and cities of Cuba. (more…)
April 28, 2024
Image: Al Mayadeen
The slogans proposed these days in the demonstrations in the United States goes beyond calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and improving the living conditions of the residents of the Strip, and goes so far as to call for redrawing the world differently and imposing a new reality on the superpower that dominates it. (more…)
By Jim Cason, David Brooks on April 28, 2024
Caroline Fohlin, Professor of Economics at Emory University beaten and arrested by police. photo: La Jornada
Washington and New York – The escalation of student protests in the United States is part of a huge movement that is demanding an end to U.S. support for Israel’s war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and whose dimensions to date include more than 8,000 acts in at least 850 cities and towns in the country during the last seven months. (more…)
By Arthur Gonzalez on April 23, 2024
María Payá photo: EFE
We have lost count of the number of international trips made by Rosa María Payá Acevedo, since she obtained a political refugee visa for the United States, shortly after the death of her father, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, in a car accident in 2012, when he was traveling in a car driven at excessive speed by the Spaniard Ángel Carromero, a member of the youth of the Spanish Popular Party. (more…)
By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on April 25, 2024 from Caracas
Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez at the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit, Photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit, in Caracas, on April 24, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”. (more…)
By Luis Bruschtein on April 25, 2024.
Massive march in Buenos Aires for education
The first march was of the labor movement, on January 24, against the DNU, the omnibus law and labor flexibilization; the second was on March 24 for human rights. And this latest one has been the third big march against the government of Javier Milei, mobilized by the educational community in defense of public education. And they are getting bigger and bigger. (more…)
By Yousef al-Helou on April 23, 2024
Che in Gaza in 1959
Since the explicit Israeli colonisation of historic Palestine in 1948 supported by colonialist and imperialist powers, namely Britain and the US, the Palestinian struggle has become a global cause. Resistance was a natural response to the invasions and incursions better known as “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine”. (more…)