Author: Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir

Election in Argentina deepens crisis facing working people

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Market in Buenos Aires, Aug. 10, 2022 where customers can pay vendors in rapidly deflating cash or exchange goods through barter. Inflation has gone over 100% annually, one of world’s highest.

Whichever candidate wins the presidential election in Argentina in October will only mean more hardships for working people. In the midst of the deep capitalist crisis shaking the country, the solutions offered by all the capitalist politicians foreshadow belt-tightening measures,…

‘COVID clinics in socialist Cuba show what is possible’

Vol. 86/No. 21 - May 30, 2022
Food delivery during peak of pandemic in May 2020. Health care workers and other Cubans are proud of role they played in combating pandemic and at Cuba’s 90% vaccination rate.

HAVANA — I had been here two days in late April as part of an international team of volunteers, helping set up the Pathfinder Books stand at the Havana International Book Fair, when I developed COVID-19 symptoms. Had I been…

‘Revolutionary war began liberation of women in Cuba’

Vol. 82/No. 28 - July 30, 2018
Above, participants in International May Day Brigade to Cuba hear from combatants in Cuba's revolutionary war. Inset, Teté Puebla, left, and Pérsida Chibás Ponce joined Rebel Army in their teens, were transformed in revolutionary struggle.

  HAVANA — One of the high points for participants in the International May Day Brigade to Cuba this spring was having the opportunity to hear from some of the combatants who took part in the revolutionary war there. Led…