Working people, youth mobilize to defend socialist revolution in Cuba

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Students, workers, farmers discuss road forward with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana Aug. 5. Gov’t is organizing to take on economic challenges, impact of U.S. embargo.

President Joseph Biden announced July 30 that Washington plans to “increase pressure” on Cuba. Since Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement led Cuban workers and farmers to make a socialist revolution over 60 years ago, every U.S. president, Democrat…


Gen. Armando Choy, lifelong Chinese Cuban revolutionary

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 26 in Havana at age 87. Anyone who had the chance to meet Choy was struck by his pride and satisfaction of having devoted his…


Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Statement by Vivian Sahner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, Aug. 11. Working people are not only capable of waging mighty revolutionary struggles, we have proven we can win. That is the lesson of the two great…


Armando Choy, Chinese Cuban general and veteran revolutionary

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 27. He was one of three Chinese Cuban generals interviewed in the book Our History Is Still Being Written, published by Pathfinder Press. The book…


Cuba protests US intervention as it tackles challenges from embargo

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
New York Times ran this article in Spanish and English on protests in Cuba with this image, which the paper claimed was of an anti-government protest. In fact, it is a march in Havana in support of the revolution! In the baseball cap behind the Cuban flag is Gerardo Hernández, a well-known leader of the Committees in Defense of the Revolution and one of the Cuban 5, who spent 16 years in prison in the U.S., framed up for his work helping to stop terrorist attacks on Cuba.

If you follow the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, or virtually any of the U.S. capitalist media, you saw front-page reports that Cuba was convulsed July 11 by a massive, spontaneous anti-government “uprising.” That the Cuban…


Cuba’s working people rose up, carried out a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

“What the imperialists cannot forgive,” Fidel Castro told the Cuban people at a rally in Havana April 16, 1961, on the eve of Washington’s attempted Bay of Pigs invasion, was “that we have made a socialist revolution right under their…


As revolution advanced, Cuban peasants’ lives were transformed

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Working people and Rebel Army fighters line up at field hospital in Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 1958. Revolutionary forces’ policy was to treat peasants, combatants, wounded enemy soldiers without distinction.

The Spanish edition of   Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution  by Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos and Yolanda Ferrer, three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the…


Book on Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution out in Greek

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Cuba’s Ambassador in Greece, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina, left, and book editor Natasha Terlexi, speak at May 30 book launch of Our History Is Still Being Written in Greek.

ATHENS, Greece — Publisher Diethnes Vima publicly launched its newly released Greek-language edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution here May 30. The book is a series of…


Fidel Castro: ‘No one has been slandered more than the Jews’

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

Supporters of Hamas and some middle-class radicals have responded to the recent fighting between the reactionary Islamist group and the Israeli military by organizing protests under the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a…


The Cuban Revolution: An example for us today

Black liberation, workers’ stake in defending due process and how cops and courts serve capitalist rule
Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021
Fidel Castro, left, addresses crowd in Colón, Cuba, Jan. 7, 1959, as Freedom Caravan crosses Cuba on way to Havana after overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba’s socialist revolution, along with struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation, helped us “understand the kind of revolutionary transformation of ourselves necessary to defeat capitalist rulers,” said Mary-Alice Waters at Midwest Socialist Workers Party meeting April 24.

“Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at the Socialist…