By Ana Hurtado on April 30th, 2024
Fidel descends from a tank at Playa Giron during the invasion of mercenary troops of the US, April 19, 1961. Photo: Mario Collado
April for the Cuban people is a month of victories. I felt a great emotion writing about the Cuban victory at the Bay of Pigs in my last article. A victory that not only meant the first great defeat of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, but also the salvation of thousands of Cuban lives that would have gone out to fight in those first years to defend the Revolution. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on May 1, 2024, in Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This May Day, Cuba did not hold its traditional parade in the capital’s Revolution Square for the second consecutive year. The lack of fuel made it impossible to provide the necessary transportation for thousands of Cubans in the surrounding neighborhoods and provinces to travel to the iconic Paseo Avenue in Havana. This event every year attracted all generations of Cubans parading with Cuban flags in hand, and with the typical excitement and pride that characterizes us. (more…)
April 29, 2024 |
Islanda Micherling
The Haitian people are once again facing imperialist interference in their fate. The island in the Caribbean is experiencing growing violence and systematic violations, control over territories by armed groups, repression, and subjection of the people’s interests to transnational capital. (more…)
By Becca Renk on April 29, 2024
Ben Linder
“I was three years old when he was killed,” says Xiomara Hernández. “My little brother who is here with me today is the baby, he was just six months old.” (more…)
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…)