Israeli gov’t gives Hamas an ultimatum: Free hostages!

Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews! Fight Jew-hatred!
Palestinians take flour from aid truck in Gaza City Feb. 19, a few days after Hamas cops shot and killed youth in Rafah when he took an aid package, sparking protests against thug group.

The Israeli government gave Hamas leaders a deadline of Ramadan in early March to release all the roughly 100 hostages it still holds captive. Otherwise, it said, the Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive on Rafah, on the…




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‘Che Guevara on Economics and Politics’ on road to socialism

Che Guevara, second from left, at Cuban factory. He discussed importance of discipline, goals of the revolution and, above all, communist consciousness and work as social responsibility.

This is the Editor’s Note by Mary-Alice Waters to the new Pathfinder Press expanded edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. Tablada received the Special Prize from the Cuban cultural institution…







Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.