More than one hundred attend launch of 'Revolution Betrayed' in Cuba This year, for the first time one of Trotsky's key works, the Revolution Betrayed, was presented by the Frederick Engels Foundation at the Havana Book Fair, stimulating big interest. A special edition of a theoretical magazine on China, including the analysis of the International Marxist Tendency on this subject was also being sold. It is clear that a layer of the most conscious workers and youth in Cuba are looking far a Marxist alternative to the prospect of "market economics" being reintroduced to the...
Impressions from Havana As the news came out about Castro not standing again for president, the comrades manning the Frederick Engels Foundation at the Havana Book Fair sent us their impressions of how people are reacting and what situation is opening up in Cuba.
Vultures hovering over Cuba after Fidel Castro steps down On Tuesday, February 19, Fidel Castro announced he was no longer going to stand for the position as President of Cuba. All the talk in the bourgeois is of the need to remove the regime, but there is no mention of the real social gains of the Cuban Revolution. We do not stand with these vultures. We defend the Cuban Revolution by working for an all-Latin American and international revolution.
Cuba at the Crossroads – Cuba and the debate about Socialism of the 21st Century Cuba is reaching a turning point. Cuban professor Frank Solar points out the dangers and opportunities the Revolution is facing. See also in Spanish.
Cuba: "One day of the blockade is equal to 139 urban buses." The Cuban revolution has made many spectacular advances, but it faces serious problems. From the streets of Havana Darrall Cozens offers an eyewitness account of these successes, challenges, and the debates that are taking place in the island.
“Cuba: the only way out is to spread the revolution throughout Latin America” The Spanish Marxist journal, El Militante, recently interviewed Frank Josué Solar, a Cuban university lecturer and communist. As he says, “the only way out is the extension of the revolution throughout Latin America to create a socialist federation.”
“Che” - an icon? The life and ideas of Ernesto Guevara Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara was executed by Bolivian troops near the town of La Higuera on 9 October 1967, following an ambush. The operation was planned by the CIA and organized by US Special Forces. On the anniversary of his death it is appropriate that we make a balance sheet of this outstanding revolutionary and martyr. In this article, originally written on the 40th anniversary of Che's death, Alan Woods looks at the evolution of Che Guevara from his early days to the day he was killed.
Interview with Celia Hart: "How can you not be a Trotskyist in the Cuban Revolution!" During her stay in Buenos Aires at the end of June, El Militante Argentina interviewed the Cuban revolutionary Celia Hart. In this interview, Celia tells us about the role of Fidel in the Cuban revolution and the perspectives for Cuba, about the relevance of the ideas of Che and Leon Trotsky, and about the Venezuelan revolution and the tasks for Latin American revolutionaries.
Interview with Gerardo Hernandez, jailed by the US for fighting against terrorism In the first ever media interview given by any of the Cuban Five, BBC's Newshour's Claire Bolderson spoke to Gerardo Hernandez from his maximum security prison in Victorville, California. Audio and transcript.
Posada’s release exposes Washington’s hypocrisy The decision by the US authorities to release the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles exposes before the eyes of the world the hypocritical attitude of the United States government to terrorism.
Granma publishes Alan Woods' article on Iran On March 6th the official organ of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party Granma published a translation of Alan Woods' article War Drums in Washington or Bush's Last stand.
Book by Celia Hart debuts in Havana Here we publish the English translation of the article Se presenta en la Havana libro de Celia Hart (28 March 2007).
An instructive book for today’s revolutionaries Here we publish the English translation of a recent article published in Granma after the Cuban edition of Bolshevism, the Road to Revolutionby Alan Woods was launched at the 2007 Havana Book Fair.
Wars and terrorism: symptom of the disaster of capitalism Here we publish the English translation of an article published last year in Granma after the Cuban edition of Reason in Revolt was launched at the Havana Book Fair with Alan Woods and Adan Chavez speaking.
Alan Woods presents his book Bolshevism: the road to revolution at 2007 Havana Book Fair In presenting his book on the history of the Bolshevik party, Alan Woods was able to set the record straight on what really happened in the Russian Revolution, in particular emphasising the role of Leon Trotsky. The fact that Trotsky’s books on sale at the stand of the Frederick Engels Foundation were sold, once again, is an indication that on the island there is a thirst for the genuine ideas of Marxism.
