US class struggle a feature at Havana conference

Panel from US describes capitalist rulers’ offensive, growing resistance by working people
Vol. 82/No. 20 - May 21, 2018

HAVANA — “Did the 2016 electoral victory of Donald Trump register a rise in racism, xenophobia, misogyny and every other form of reaction among working people in the United States? Is that why tens of millions of workers voted for…


Conference on challenges facing labor held in Havana

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018
Conference on challenges facing labor held in Havana

HAVANA — Among the events here in the days surrounding the massive working-class mobilization on May Day was a conference addressing challenges facing workers and the unions in Cuba and the world. Plenary sessions and panels took up topics ranging…


Cuba May Day shows resolve to defend revolution

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018
Hundreds of thousands joined International Workers Day mobilization in Havana, May 1.

HAVANA — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched here May 1, expressing their ongoing support and determination to advance Cuba’s socialist revolution. Contingents of trade unionists and members of the mass organizations of women, youth and others paraded past the…


Revolutionary Cuba answers US rulers at Peru ‘Summit’

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

Although the ostensible theme of the April 13-15 “VIII Summit of the Americas” in Lima, Peru, was to advance “the fight against corruption,” Washington and its allies used the meeting to push their campaign to bring down the government of…


Defeat of US imperialism at Playa Girón was historic

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

Below is an excerpt from Cuba’s Internationalist Foreign Policy, 1975-80, by Fidel Castro, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. It comes from his speech “Angola: African Girón,” given on April 19, 1976, in commemoration of the 15th…


Cuba’s role in defeat of apartheid debated at UK meeting

South African forces ‘broke their teeth’ against Cuban and Angolan forces in battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

LONDON — Sharply conflicting assessments of the historic victory won by Cuban and Angolan forces over the apartheid South African army at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988 were presented at a daylong conference here March 23. The event,…


Cuban women leaders speak in NY about revolution’s gains

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

NEW YORK — A March 16 meeting here featured leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the National Union of Cuban Jurists. The event, which drew more than…


Cubans help put out fire at US-occupied Guantánamo base

Vol. 82/No. 11 - March 19, 2018

Cuban and U.S. firefighters worked closely together in February to put out a fire that raged on the perimeter of the U.S. military base in Guantánamo, Cuba. “The illegally occupied territory of Guantánamo constitutes an open wound to Cuban sovereignty,…


Cuban Revolution involves all, with sight or not

Cinema clubs with audio descriptions expand access to culture for visually impaired
Vol. 82/No. 11 - March 19, 2018

HAVANA — In February I learned about “Tocando la luz” — Touching the light — a cinema club for the visually impaired in Cuba. So, while I was here for the Havana International Book Fair, I went to the Infanta…


Social solidarity is ‘moral foundation of Cuban Revolution’

Vol. 82/No. 10 - March 12, 2018

Below is an excerpt from Marianas in Combat; the Spanish edition is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. In it Teté Puebla tells her story to Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press. Puebla joined Cuba’s revolutionary struggle…