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…)
By Bill Hackwell on May 1, 2023 from Havana
This morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received at the Palace of the Revolution 300 friends of Cuba, coming from the United States to demand an end to the blockade. Brigades, groups and other delegations are in Cuba to take part in the May 1 activities celebrating the International Day of Workers and to show their solidarity with the Cuban people who have withstood the longest continuous blockade in modern history. (more…)
By Clau O’Brien Moscoso on April 29, 2023
“The US installed Dina (Boluarte) to get lithium and cocaine.”
The Peruvian coup regime remains entrenched in power more than four months after the parliamentary coup that ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo while the National Strike is now in Day 110. On April 10th, the de facto Minister of Energy and Mines Óscar Vera announced the coup government would grant permits to Macusani Yellowcake , subsidiary of Canadian mining company Plateau Energy Metals, which as of 2021 is a subsidiary of American Lithium in the Macusani town of the Puno region. (more…)
By Nuria Barbosa León on April 29, 2023 from Havana
Friends of Cuba with workers of the Habana Libre Hotel. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios
Friends of Cuba from all the over the world are gathering in Havana to show their solidarity with the people of Cuba and in defense of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 28, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
What you see from the window of my apartment in Havana does not resemble the images that war conflicts usually leave behind. Here there are no missiles being fired, no camouflaged soldiers, no weapons. Nor do armored tanks pass by. The war does not manifest itself in body counts and car bombs, but in the shock of everyday life (more…)