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Quito, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) Jose Ramon Balaguer, head of the International Relations department at the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), said today that the revolution in Ecuador is living a crucial moment with the determination to continue building...
Center for Research on Globalization Cuba: The Long Road to Utopia Center for Research on Globalization August's book examines the Cuban experience with the development of people's power, a system of participatory democracy in which, need it be...
On a special anniversary for him, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in east Cuba on Monday on the last full day of a trip where he has been praised for aiding rapprochement between the communist government and the United States.
Watch Democracy Now! Thursday when we will interview Tom Hayden about his new book "Listen Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters," and discuss the historic normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States.
"I was always an anarcho-capitalist, I just didn't know it," says Ana Olema, the Cuban activist and artist who continues to battle repression on the island.
With change afoot, Cubans will be wrestling once more with the legacy and meaning of their revolution.
In this interview Alejandro Castro Espín, Doctor of Political Science and social researcher, shares his thoughts regarding the reestablishment of relations between Cuba and the United States. #cuba
Communist Cuba's revolution has held sway for so long -- 56 years -- that those who remember no other system are nearing retirement age with a mixture of fond memories, and just a few regrets.
Noam Chomsky: A Brief History of America's Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment... http://t.co/PQi2mVCLjr via @Snapzu #foreignpolicy
"The Cuban threat was the familiar one that runs through Cold War history, with many predecessors."
In an open letter, Castro said that he still does not trust the United States and has not spoken to any US officials himself, but that he is open to the renewal of diplomatic relations.
BBC Mundo's Will Grant in Havana speaks to youths in the city about their views on the recent thaw in US-Cuban relations and their hopes for the future.
As a U.S.-born Cuban and historian who has traveled to Cuba dozens of times since my career began nearly 18 years ago, there is one question that I am asked more than any other: What will happen in Cuba after Fidel Castro dies?
Democracy in Cuba and at Home
Political economy is more often than not depicted as a Left-Right bifurcation. This is too simplistic. It overlooks the difference between, on the one hand,
Cuba brought the greatest ideas of social transformation to several generations of Latin Americans. Its revolution touched the youth, convulsed political organizations and shook the left. In the Si...
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Marxist economist Claudio Katz on the Cuban Revolution and its economic reforms Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal It is clearly impossible, in a small place in the Caribbean, to erect...
Regime change in Cuba? Che rolling in his grave? The first shriek comes from a liberal, the latter a Marxist. With all due respect to both, I think the former
A progressive perspective on world events since 1952.
It was during the presidency of Gerardo Machado in the '20s that Cuba's tourist trade really took off.
What Direction Will Cuba Go?
The left should recall and applaud the long resistance of tiny Cuba to the northern Goliath.
US President Barack Obama has hailed a "new chapter" in US relations with Cuba, announcing moves to normalise diplomatic and economic ties.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. — Che Guevara (("Che Guevara Reader" p. 383,
The wage system under State monopoly capitalism, imposed on Cuba in the name of socialism, has always stood in the way and will continue to be an obstacle to free associated or individual labor – the authentically socialist forms of production.
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