Share this on… 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…
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Cleaver Free in Cuba
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
Share this on… HAVANA, Cuba—Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther leader is living and writing in Havana according to the British news agency, Reuters. Share this on…
Cuba Turns ‘Green Scare’ Fugitive Over to US
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Share this on… Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, a fugitive animal-rights activist, was intercepted by Cuban authorities in early August and turned over to the FBI. Share this on…
Anarchism Returns to Cuba
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Share this on… 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…
Review of Dolgoff Cuba Book
by Muswell Hillbillie
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Share this on… a review of Sam Dolgoff, The Cuban Revolution, A Critical Perspective; Copyright 1976, Black Rose Books, Ltd., Montreal; $5.95. Share this on…
Women in Cuba
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Share this on… Editor’s note: Dena is a Detroit movement activist who went to Cuba in February of this year. She was part of a group of 20 members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who made the trip…
The Anarchist Alternative in Cuba
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Share this on… 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…
An Open Letter From Cuban Anarchists
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Share this on… Dear comrades, As you might be aware, the Castroist crackdown on dissent has been stepped up and toughened up over these past few months in Cuba. Even so, transition from dictatorship to bourgeois democracy seems increasingly inevitable,…
Cuban Army Goose-steps
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Share this on… When a reader sent us this page from the December ’76 issue of Granma (the official organ of the Cuban Communist party) pictured at the right, we thought the goose-stepping troops must have been from the army…
Cuba-US Back to Normal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Share this on… 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. Share this on…
[Cuba] The Train to Matanzas
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Share this on… 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…
“We Want to Revive Anarchism in Cuba”
by Dmitri Prieto, Isbel Díaz, Mario Castillo
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Share this on… 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…
Cuban Women
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Share this on… Cuban women are beginning to see solid results of the many years of struggle that they have been through. Before the revolution, there was little or no work for any women. The only way a single woman…
Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in Cuba
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
Share this on… 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…
An Anarchist in Cuba
by Walker Lane
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Share this on… On February 2, I stepped off a plane that had left a frigid Toronto three and a half hours earlier and landed in the balmy sunshine of Holguin, Cuba. It was impossible to know then that I…