By Berta Joubert-Ceci on May 6, 2023
Workers fighting for a better country. photo: Foto: Ramón “Tonito” Zayas
This week the priorities of this government have been very clearly exposed: on the one hand, the unjustified arrest of three well-known leaders of the union and people’s struggle during the May 1st demonstrations; and on the other hand, the false charges against Mariana Nogales, a legislative representative who is well known for her fight for the environment, for LGBTPlus rights, and against government corruption. (more…)
Por Alejandra Garcia y Bill Hackwell el 5 de mayo de 2023 desde La Habana
photo: Syara Salado Massip
Estaba muy oscuro a las 4:30 cuando salimos para encontrarnos con miles de personas que ya estaban tomando las calles al grito de ¡Viva Fidel!, ¡Viva Raúl! y ¡Viva Díaz Canel! Pasamos con determinación por la Plaza de la Revolución, giramos hacia La Rampa y bajamos hacia el Malecón. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on May 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Syara Salado Massip
It was pitch dark at 4:30 as we started out to find that already thousands were taking over the streets chanting, Viva Fidel!, Viva Raul! and Viva Diaz Canel! Moving with purpose past the Plaza of the Revolution turning onto La Rampa and down towards the Malecon. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 4, 2023
On March 27 a fire at a migrant center in Juarez City, on the border with the United States, brought the world’s attention back to a problem that has worsened in recent years. Forty undocumented migrants from various countries in the region died in the fire. They are just a small fragment of the thousands who die and thousands more who endanger their lives while seeking asylum in the United States, where they are not welcome. (more…)
por Bill Hackwell on Mayo 4, 2023 from La Habana
photo: Estudio Revolution
Este año marcó la mayor delegación de personas de los EE.UU. en décadas para estar en Cuba para los eventos en torno al Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. Participaron más de 350 personas y fue fácil ver cómo los jóvenes constituían el mayor porcentaje, muchos de los cuales visitaban la Cuba revolucionaria por primera vez. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on May 4, 2023 from Havana
photo: Estudios Revolución
This year marked the largest delegation of people from the US in decades to be in Cuba for the events around the International Day of Workers. Over 350 people from the states participated and it was easy to see how youth made up the largest percentage, many of whom were visiting revolutionary Cuba for the first time. (more…)
By Gabriela Moncau on May 3, 2023
MST occupies the offices Ferbasa
Tuesday morning the office of Companhia de Ferro das Ligas da Bahia (Ferbasa), a multi national corporation that operates in the areas of mining, eucalyptus production and metallurgy, was occupied by the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in the city of Maracás (BA). (more…)
By Laura Mor on May 2, 2023 from Havana
Photo: Yaimi Ravelo
“Feel at home. Cuba is and will always be the House of the Workers, because in Cuba the workers are in power”, expressed Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel to the more than one thousand delegates who arrived in Havana days before to participate in the celebrations for the International Workers’ Day and who today collaborated in the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-imperialism. (more…)