‘Culture enables man to be more complete, revolutionary’

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022
Che Guevara at the time of victorious battle of Santa Clara, which sealed the defeat of U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Harry Villegas is at right, Aleida March is second from left. Che played a leading role in everything from literacy classes for Rebel Army combatants in the mountains to theater and ballet for the soldiers under his command in La Cabaña fortress in early 1959.

Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces  by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt below is from an interview…


Fidel Castro: Cuba shows revolution needs Marxist leadership to win

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…


US rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba dealt blow by Colombia award

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

The U.S. rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba was dealt a setback Dec. 8 when the Congress of Colombia gave an award to the Cuban government for facilitating talks that led to a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the…


Cuban Revolution set example in fight for women’s emancipation

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Students at Cuba’s Ana Betancourt School in early 1960s learn to measure and cut fabric. Set up by revolutionary government, school gave job training to peasant women for first time. Inset, Vilma Espín, a leader of the revolution, in 1958.

For those around the world who want to unite working people to advance our class interests and to end the second-class status of women, there is much to learn from the experience of Cuba’s socialist revolution. From the very beginning,…


Fidel Castro: How Cuban working people made a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Crowds welcome Fidel Castro and Rebel Army in Cienfuegos Jan. 6, 1959, after victory.

U.S. imperialism will never forgive working people in Cuba for overthrowing the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, replacing capitalist rule with a government of workers and farmers, nationalizing U.S. and Cuban companies and opening the first socialist revolution in the…




Che joined fighters in Bolivia to advance the socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Militia during 1952 Bolivian national revolution. Decades of working-class struggles and a deepening prerevolutionary situation in southern countries of Latin America led Guevara to join Bolivian fighters in 1966 in an effort to begin socialist revolution across the continent.

Pombo: A Man of Che’s guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia 1966-68 by Harry Villegas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Villegas became a combatant in the Rebel Army of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel…


Cuban Revolution vs. US capitalism

A convinced people vs. pandemic mandates
Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
One of millions of home visits in Cuba by medical students, volunteers, in Ciego de Ávila in March, to check on people’s health, ensure anyone with COVID symptoms gets treatment.

There is no COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Cuba. Yet by the time you read this some 73% of the population will be fully vaccinated and over 90% will have at least one dose, one of the highest rates in the…


Emulate Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, Oct. 27. The Socialist Workers Party points to Cuba’s socialist revolution as an example for working people to study and emulate. It shows the road forward for workers…