Working people across Cuba mobilize for May Day actions

Vol. 87/No. 19 - May 15, 2023
April 14 assembly in Santiago de Cuba drew unionists and community organizations preparing their participation in upcoming International Workers Day celebrations across the island.

HAVANA, May 1 — The capitalist media, from the New York Times to the Miami Herald to BBC, ran articles today proclaiming “Cuba cancels May Day parade” or something similar. These assertions are false, as Militant reporters and others actually…


Farmers in Cuba confront impact of US economic war

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023
Cuban farmers with delegation of communists from U.S. and U.K. during visit to Cuban-Bulgarian Friendship Cooperative in Güines, Cuba, Feb. 24. They are looking at tank with tobacco leaf residue used to create tabaquina, a natural pesticide, to substitute for imported products that are difficult to obtain because of Washington’s 60-year-plus embargo.

GÜINES, Cuba — Farmers at a cooperative here are part of efforts by Cuba’s working people and their revolutionary government to boost agricultural production and reduce dependence on costly food imports. “Last year was very hard,” said Yunaiky Cruz, president…



Iraqi Communist Party message of solidarity with Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Below is the solidarity message sent by Raid Fahmi on behalf of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party to the two-day International US-Cuba Normalization Conference held in New York City March 11-12. Fahmi is secretary of the party’s…


Many attracted to ‘Militant’ at Havana Int’l Book Fair

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

HAVANA — An indication of the interest in revolutionary working-class politics among workers and youth visiting the Pathfinder stand at the Havana International Book Fair this February was the 31 who subscribed to the Militant. Volunteers at the Pathfinder bookstand…


Association of the Blind draws interest at Havana book fair

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

HAVANA — One of the most interesting and lively stands at this year’s Havana International Book Fair, held in February, was organized by Cuba’s National Association of the Blind (ANCI).  The association regularly has a stand here, at Cuba’s largest…


Cuban rail workers defend safety, gains of socialist revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Cuba’s first new rail link in two decades was opened between Havana and port of Mariel in 2014. Cuban trains have five-person crews. For 16-hour Havana-Santiago run across the island, two crews work eight-hour shifts each, with sleeping car for those off-duty.

HAVANA — While in Cuba for the Havana International Book Fair in February, several volunteers at the Pathfinder Press stand who are rail workers were able to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s National Union of Transportation and Port Workers…


Women wanted to help, to be part of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Graduation of 8,000 “Anitas,” December 1961 in Havana. Young peasant women each received a sewing machine, pledging to teach 10 others how to sew, and to spread the revolution.

To mark International Women’s Day, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March is Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. It is by three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espín, Asela…


Young socialists discuss class struggle with students in Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

HAVANA — Young socialists from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom were invited by Cuban youth organizations for an exchange with students here Feb. 17. The lively back-and-forth took up an array of topics. The students were particularly…