LIBERATION News Service (Editor’s note: On New Year’s Day in 1959, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and their victorious guerrilla army strode into Havana. The day before, Fulgencio Batista, the ruthless dictator who had been the prime object of the political …
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a review of 33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara, Translated by Howard Curtis. Europa Editions 2015 Les Héritiers du Che (The Heirs Of Che) by Canek Sánchez Guevara and Jorge Masetti. Presses de la Cite 2007
The Cuban state has usually been able to keep a tight lid on protests. Generally, it only allows demonstrations that have been organized by government ministries. However, during the fall and winter of 2020-21 the dissident San Isidro Movement in …
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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 at the invitation …
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a review of Sam Dolgoff, The Cuban Revolution, A Critical Perspective; Copyright 1976, Black Rose Books, Ltd., Montreal; $5.95.
HAVANA — We entered the elevator on the ground floor of Havana’s renowned FOCSA building in the city’s Vedado district and were quickly whisked, non-stop, to the 33rd floor. When the doors opened, tuxedoed waiters welcomed us to La Torre, …
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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 had arrived two …
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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, albeit that, as …
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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 of Argentina or …
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George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
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Returning members of the Venceremos Cane Cutting Brigade encountered their comrades who will take up the work of the first contingent of the brigade in the sugar cane fields of Cuba. The Venceremos Brigade is a group of young Americans …
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The following are quotations from a variety of “leftist” politicians and organizations:
Six hundred young Americans are planning to show their support this winter for the Cuban revolution by taking to that country’s fields armed with machetes.
Madison Avenue seems determined to co-opt and make a profit on everything, even revolution.
“To build communism, a new man must be created simultaneously with the material base.” — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba. In the preceding articles, I have dealt with the quality of life in Cuba, the laying of the …
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let’s talk about splitting, splitting is an art frequently called upon in revolution retreat, says the I Ching, must not be confused with flight, and furthermore, frequently, it furthers ONE TO HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO . i.e., know in advance …
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FIFTH ESTATE #363, Winter, 2003/2004, Vol. 38, No. 4, page 3 NEWS Miami: The War Comes Home 5 APOC Report 11 Tales From The Planet 12 Lessons From Cancun 13 Against the Wall 14 Uprising in Bolivia 16 Sex and …
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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 could get money …
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NEW YORK, N.Y., June 15 (Liberation News Service)—Three plainclothes police arrested YIPPEE coordinator Jerry Rubin at his apartment late Thursday afternoon and charged him with possession of dangerous drugs—a felony. From the conduct of the police, it was clear that …
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Where is Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party? Every pig from Oakland, California to New York City is looking for him since he failed to turn himself in for parole violation on November 25th. Like Spartacus …
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