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Cuba Talk

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969

On Wednesday, February 5th, the Rev. Peter Pillsbury will talk on his recent tour of Cuba at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Lowinger, 2170 Iroquois (Indian Village) at 8:00 p.m.

Help Send this Boy to Cuba

by Jerry Lindquist

Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970

When Fidel Castro liberated the Cuban people from exploitation by United Fruit and other capitalist pilferage 10 years ago, an old folks home in Washington enforced an economic blockade on that small island country. Their reasoning can only be explained …

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Cuba Beats U.S.

by NACLA

Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969

Cuba secured the World Amateur Baseball Championship by scoring a 2-to-1 victory over the United States at a playoff match in Santo Domingo Aug. 26.

Cuba’s New Constitution

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019

Pity the poor Marxist-Leninist militants now bereft of the police states for which they so earnestly apologized. But, not real pity as their dishonesty has caused as much damage to revolutionary possibilities as have the objects of their political ardor.

Cleaver Free in Cuba

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

HAVANA, Cuba—Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther leader is living and writing in Havana according to the British news agency, Reuters.

Anarchism Returns to Cuba

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

The Anarchist Social Center and Library (Abra: Centro Social y Biblioteca Libertaria) was inaugurated in Havana on May 5. The first word in the Spanish name, Abra, means a place or action through which possibilities can be opened up, which …

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Cuba-US Back to Normal

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

Acceding to the exigencies of global capital, the U.S. and Cuban governments finally admitted their mutual interests after some 16 years of mutual denunciation.

No Ten Million for Cuba

by Liberation News Service

Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970

HAVANA (LNS) In two speeches May 19 and 20, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that the projected mark of ten million tons of sugar would not be reached this year.

Cuba Turns ‘Green Scare’ Fugitive Over to US

by Bill Weinberg

Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, a fugitive animal-rights activist, was intercepted by Cuban authorities in early August and turned over to the FBI.

State Violence & Cuba’s Ladies in White

by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)

Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010

In March, Cuban police broke up a protest by the Ladies in White, women with family members sentenced to prison for opposing the government. The images of the women being dragged to a bus, their white clothes smeared with mud, …

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Cuba: Independent Self-Activity vs. the State

by SK

Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019

This May was a very exciting time for anarchists in Cuba, full of both inspiration and anxiety. On the positive side, the Anarchist Social Center and Library (ABRA: Centro Social y Biblioteca Libertaria) hosted the Fourth Libertarian Spring Conference in …

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Cuba Resource Page

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # Archive

< Back to Issue Archive and Resource Pages Cuba Resource Page Fifth Estate articles on Cuba are displayed in date order. Cuba: Dawning of American Imperialism: The Spanish-American War by Bob Nirkind Fifth Estate #269, February, 1976 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/269-february-1976/cuba-dawning-american-imperialism/ All too …

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“We Want to Revive Anarchism in Cuba”

by Dmitri Prieto, Isbel Díaz, Mario Castillo

Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary

FE note: Comrades working to revive anarchism in Cuba need our immediate financial support. For U.S. dollar donations, visit the Cuban Anarchist Solidarity Fund. For Euro-zone contributions, click here. Changes in the Cuban state’s regulation of private enterprise and in …

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Cuba Builds Socialism

by Lionel Martin

Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969

(Reprinted from the Guardian, New York City) New Year’s day marks the tenth anniversary of the victory of the rebellion (Fidel’s terminology) and the beginning of the Cuban revolution. This tenth year, just completed, will be remembered as the Year …

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Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in Cuba

by Quincy B. Thorn

Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology

The recent loosening of restrictions on economic transactions between citizens and companies in the U.S. and those in Cuba has been greeted by many liberals and leftists as a promise of what they designate as “prosperity” for the island. They …

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Organic Cuba

by Citizen Cane

Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000

In May, two former Fifth Estaters (turned farmers) will attend an international organic agriculture conference in Havana. Joining us there will be another farmer from Olympia, Washington, and friends from a Mayan community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.

Cuba: Dawning of American Imperialism

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976

1976, being America’s 200th anniversary–with all the commercial pomp and whitewashed historical hoopla that’s riding along with it–would be the ideal year to miss entirely and go abroad.

Anarchist Cuba

by SK

Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020

a review of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century by Kirwin Shaffer. PM Press 2019

[Cuba] The Train to Matanzas

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016

On March 15, our last day in Cuba, my wife and I boarded the Hershey Electric Railway in Casablanca, across the harbor from Old Havana, for a 57-mile trip to the town of Matanzas. We were flying back to Toronto …

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The Anarchist Alternative in Cuba

by Bill Weinberg

Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017

A former community center that hosted a youth rock scene is now being occupied by activists, seemingly ignored by the authorities. A few blocks away, urban farms are bright patches of green in the landscape, producing vegetables and fruits for …

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