Slipping and Sliding in San Pedro Sula
When we look around the world we see a number of leaders – Chávez is one of them but not the only one – who, over the last eight years, have become more and more negative and oppositional to the United...
View ArticleObama and Cuba: End of an Illusion
The times we live in reflect that in Latin America and the Caribbean the confrontation between historic forces is getting worse. ─ Raul Castro On February 23, 2010 incarcerated Cuban Orlando Zapata...
View ArticleBehind the New Economic Measures in Cuba
Marxism is the concrete analysis of a concrete situation. — Lenin On September 13, 2010 the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) – the mass trade-union organization that is a central component and...
View ArticleWashington and the Cuban Revolution Today: Ballad of a Never-Ending Policy
The Obama Administration, consistent with the approach of the Bush Administration, has made a political decision to subordinate foreign policy and national interest-based decisions to domestic politics...
View ArticleWashington and the Cuban Revolution Today: Ballad of a Never-Ending Policy
The Triumph of the Cuban Revolution On January 1, 1959 Cuban revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro, swept into power and established a provisional revolutionary government across the length of the...
View ArticleWashington and the Cuban Revolution Today: Ballad of a Never-Ending Policy
October 1962 marks the 50th Anniversary of the so-called “Cuban Missile Crisis.” The last two weeks of that October were the closest the world has come so far to a widespread nuclear exchange. (In...
View ArticleThe Case of Yoani Sanchez
You strangle us [for decades] and then you criticize us for the way we breathe. — Fidel Castro Cubans came to our region as doctors, teachers, soldiers, agricultural experts, but never as colonizers....
View ArticleIsolation: Another Vote on Washington’s Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
Annually, a near-ritual unfolds in the Fall Session of the United Nations General Assembly: the assembled states and governments dutifully, in near-unanimous consensus, vote in favor of a Resolution on...
View ArticleReminiscences on Nelson Mandela and the US Anti-Apartheid Movement
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela The outpouring of emotion and dignified appreciation that has...
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To the Memory of Malcolm X
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for...
View ArticleWashington Retreats, The Revolution Advances
From April 28 – May 5, 2015 representatives of the July 26 Coalition of New York-New Jersey organized a people-to-people program to Cuba with a dozen travelers. Our delegation included doctors and...
View ArticleAn Encounter with Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and...
View ArticleAnd Then There Were None
The UN Announcement Right before Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez closed the first round of high-level diplomats speaking in favor of the annual United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the...
View ArticleTrump at the UN
President Donald Trump gave a bellicose, threatening speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) September 19, 2017. In addition to harsh attacks on North Korea and Iran, Trump singled out...
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The Case of Cuba: “Human Rights” as a Club
This document was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Office of the Commissioner, based in Geneva, Switzerland in the name of Cuba solidarity organizations in the New York-New...
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Our Che: 50 Years After His Execution
(Author’s note: This is an updated, re-edited essay, based on a 2007 written for a Celebration of Ernesto Che Guevara’s life held in October 2007 in New York City in commemoration of the 40th...
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55 Years After: Political Legacies of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The last two weeks of October 1962, 55 years ago, was the closest the world has come so far to a widespread nuclear exchange in what has become known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis.” The First Use of...
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The Life of Fidel Castro: A Marxist Appreciation
Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class...
View ArticleTrump, Trade Wars, and the Class Struggle
All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid...
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A Shameful Legacy: “Race” and the Railroad Industry in the United States
“Race” has always, historically speaking, been the Achilles Heel of the labor movement in the United States, the number one tool of the bosses and big capital to divide, contain, and crush...
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