By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez on December 31, 2023
The Zapatista’s struggle for Dignity. Chiapas Feb. 2001, photo: Bill Hackwell
What motivates today a group of Valencian activists to make a whirlwind trip to the Mexican Southeast to celebrate with the Zapatistas the 30th anniversary of the beginning of their insurrection? (more…)
By Raúl Castro Ruz on January 1, 2024
Commemoration for the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution at Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Park in Santiago de Cuba. Photo: Ismael Francisco
Compatriots:
We arrive at the 65th anniversary of the triumph of our socialist Revolution. Many have been the challenges we have had to face to reach this point; but it has been worth it, the work of the Revolution and its social achievements, even in the midst of difficulties, corroborate this. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 31, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This January 1st, Cubans mark the beginning of a new year full of hopes, full of challenges, and we will wait for this 2024 as usual, with our families, in a peaceful country. But we will also celebrate that January 1, 1959, when our people woke up to the news they had been longing for for centuries: The Revolution, the definitive Revolution led by Fidel, had won. (more…)
December 31, 2023
To our readers, friends and comrades
In 2024, may not a child tremble because of bombs, hunger, fear or cold.
May the shattered lives not be forgotten.
May mothers and fathers and grandparents celebrate the joy of the growth of their children and grandchildren, without wars or blockades.
Here’s to the hope of a 2024 where sunflowers can bloom. (more…)
By Katrien Demuynck on December 30, 2023
Plaza of the Revolution: photo: Bill Hackwell
On January 1, 2024, it will be exactly 65 years since the Cuban rebels led by Fidel Castro achieved victory over the dictator Batista, supported by the United States. It was the beginning of 65 years of building a utopia, a new and better society, and as many years of resisting the continuous attempts to liquidate the revolution by the imperialist superpower of the North. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on December 30, 2023, from Havana
Gaza City, photo : Ali Jadallah / Anadolu
In 1902 the world was receiving one of Lenin’s most important works, called What Is To Be Done? He reflected in its pages on what path a revolutionary party should take and its connection with the masses. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on December 29, 2023
image: Ares
At the beginning of 2023, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Washington Embassy in Havana, Benjamin Ziff, in an interview granted to The Associated Press, expressed that “it was difficult to go back” in relation to Cuba. (more…)
By Gustavo Robreño Dolz on December 29, 2023
Historical, political and ideological significance of an unprecedented educational feat.
Apart from the educational or purely pedagogical considerations that can be made about the Literacy Campaign launched and successfully completed by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba throughout 1961, -the same year of the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution and the defeat of the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron, (more…)