Leeds students take stand against Jew-hatred in UK

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

LEEDS, England — “Jewish students have had enough,” Emma Levy, president of the Jewish Society at the University of Leeds, told several hundred students at a “Stand Against Antisemitism” vigil here March 1. It was called in response to mounting…


In factional frenzy, Democrats deal blows to constitutional rights

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

With each new discouraging pre-election poll, Democrats everywhere and the liberal media become more frantic. This leads them to rely more and more heavily on the series of court cases they’ve cooked up to bring down President Joseph Biden’s rival,…


Juan Almeida: Exemplary leader in Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
In front from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro with other Moncada combatants freed from Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955, after nationwide campaign for amnesty.

HAVANA — The life of Juan Almeida Bosque, a central leader of the Cuban Revolution for more than five decades, was highlighted at two events during the recent Havana International Book Fair here. They showed the revolutionary integrity, courage, discipline,…


Cuba’s Association of the Blind prepares for national assembly

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
María Victoria Viltres, physical therapist who has retinis pigmentosa, working in rehab center in Buey Arriba municipality on the edge of the Sierra Maestra mountains, October 2016.

HAVANA — The Havana International Book Fair is not just an event to display and promote literature and the arts. It’s also a place where you meet ordinary Cuban working people defending the conquests of their socialist revolution. A good…


Canada gov’t mounts new attack on political rights

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Canadian riot police use pepper spray against truckers, other protesters in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2022. Despite Emer-gencies Act being recently ruled illegal by federal judge, Justin Trudeau government is pressing new attack on political rights, the Online Harms Act.

MONTREAL — In a major new attack on the right to free speech, Canada’s Liberal Party government has introduced Bill 63 — the Online Harms Act. It is sweeping legislation to strengthen existing “anti-hate laws” and impose government censorship over…


Widespread Iran election boycott shows weakness of regime

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

The Iranian government claims that 41% of those eligible voted in the March 1 elections to the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that picks the country’s “Supreme Leader.” But even that figure would be the lowest voter…


Attack on Jews at university in Canada pushed back

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

A proposal for the student government, known as the Alma Mater Society, to organize a referendum at the University of British Columbia to evict the Jewish students’ organization Hillel from campus by cancelling its lease, was rejected Feb. 28. After…


Fidel Castro: ‘Che’s ideas are absolutely relevant today’

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Havana, November 1961. Che Guevara, minister of industry, gives “Territory Free of Illiteracy” banner to workers at paint factory. “We’re not trying to set a world record,” he said. “We’re teaching people to read and write so you can learn other things, and combine study and work.”

The following excerpts are from the speech by Fidel Castro on Oct. 8, 1987, at the main ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, held at the newly completed electronic components factory in Pinar del…


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

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
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…