By Mark Friedman on October 18, 2024 from Sacramento CA.
Solidarity among workers, Bill Camp speaking at a CTC meeting in Cuba 2018.
They came from the labor unions, Cuba solidarity committees, human rights, Palestinian and Arab-American struggles, and the Democratic Party to celebrate the life of Bill Camp. Camp was the Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council from 1999 to 2014, and an icon of the labor movement here. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 30, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
More than half a century of blockade against the island and the economic crisis it brings as a consequence -which is worsening with successive White House administrations no matter if they are Democrat or Republican – the main reasons why Cubans emigrate, according to common knowledge here and confirmed by experts. (more…)
By Pasqualina Curcio on August 3, 2020
This is the title of OXFAM’s latest report from July 2020. In that report they propose that in order to face the (more…)
August 24, 2018
Between April 2017 and March 2018, U.S. policy towards Cuba intensified and the economic aggression and siege cost the Caribbean country more than $4.321 billion dollars, (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on August 16, 2017
Raoul Peck, the Haitian filmmaker, opens his new film – Der Junge Karl Marx (2017) – in the forests of Prussia. Peasants gather fallen wood. They look cold and hungry. (more…)
July 21, 2017
U.S. lawmakers are seeking to criminally outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. (more…)
October 6, 2016
A total of 49 fines have been imposed, during Barack Obama’s Administration, to US and foreign entities for violating the US Embargo against Cuba according to the records of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Government. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 8, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump rose to power by making mass deportations of undocumented immigrants a central promise of his campaign. Today, those promises have become a stark reality, one that the world is watching with growing concern. Jose Pertierra, one of the top immigration attorneys in Washington, D.C. shared with this reporter, during an interview for the multiplatform Telesur, that the consequences of this decision will be immeasurable for the U.S. society. (more…)