Mariela Castro Espín, a leader of Cuban Revolution, hosted by the International Action Center

By April 26, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Mariela Castro Espín, April 25. Seated is LeiLani Dowell.WW photo: Brenda Ryan

New York — An inspiring and electrifying meeting was held at the Solidarity Center in New York City on April 25 featuring Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy of the Cuban parliament, the National Assembly of People’s Power. The meeting was [...]

 

Nicolás Maduro seeks to deepen revolution

By April 24, 2013 » Add the second comment.
¡Maduro, presidente!

A wonderful civilian-military ­parade capped the inauguration of Nicolás ­Maduro in Venezuela on April 19. Maduro took the oath of office in the National Assembly as constitutional president for the period 2013 to 2019. Some 61 international delegations were present, including many heads of state, not only from Latin America and the Caribbean but from [...]

 

Guantánamo hunger strike spreads

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In a paroxysm of vicious brutality, the U.S. government and military have brutally attacked prisoners at the U.S. concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay in an attempt to end their hunger strike. The military admits that over half the prison population is on hunger strike. The real figure could be many more. Army Lt. Col. Samuel [...]

 

Chris Hani honored in South Africa on 20th anniversary of assassination

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Chris Hani

On April 10, 1993, racists in South Africa killed Chris Hani, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party and commander of Um Khonto we Sizwe (MK — “Spear of the Nation”), the military wing of the African National Congress. Hani went out for a morning run and was heading back home when Polish [...]

 

Colombians demand peace, end to war on FARC

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One million Colombians marched in the capital city of Bogotá as well as other cities and towns on April 9 to show their support of peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP). Talks which began in Oslo, Norway, in 2012 are now continuing in Havana, Cuba. Considering that [...]

 

CIA’s criminal paramilitary actions grew after 9/11

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Created in 1947 as a successor to the espionage agency born during World War II for use against the U.S.’s imperialist rivals, Japan and Germany, the Central Intelligence Agency rapidly developed into an international arm of repression for U.S. imperialism against the world’s working-class and liberation movements. It especially targeted the Soviet Union, People’s China [...]

 

Chavista Maduro wins election

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Late in the evening of Sunday, April 14, the National Electoral Council (CNE) issued its ruling: Nicolas ­Maduro was elected president of Venezuela. Thousands of compatriots were waiting outside the Miraflores presidential palace to celebrate the victory that was not just to win a governmental post, but that means the continuation of the Bolivarian Revolution. [...]

 

A Tribute to Hugo Chávez Frias

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On April 12, beside a portrait of Hugo Chávez Frías at the Bolivarian Hall in Washington, D.C, Dr. Adina Bastidas presented a moving discussion on Chávez’s life, celebrating the victory of democracy and the continuing movement to build socialism in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Dr. Bastidas is the former vice president of Venezuela and [...]

 

Thatcher and Gorbachev: Her other anti-worker legacy

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The role of Margaret Thatcher as Britain’s Ronald Reagan — that is, as a reactionary head of state who unleashed an assault on unions and the working class in general — is widely understood. Despite all the usual efforts made by the capitalist media to create an atmosphere of mourning when one of their own [...]

 

Kerry double-talks as Pentagon stokes war fever

By April 15, 2013 » Add the second comment.

As U.S. F-16 and A-10 fighter jets, helicopters and C-130 transport planes powered into the sky from Osan Air Base in south Korea, headed toward the border with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Beijing talking to Chinese government leaders about “reducing tensions” in [...]

 
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Las protestas del Primero de Mayo reflejan la profundidad de la crisis europea

¿Evolucionarán las tradicionales manifestaciones de los trabajadores del Primero de Mayo en Europa en una gigantesca protesta anti austeridad este año? Se esperan protestas masivas en Portugal, España y Grecia, como mínimo, y en todos los países existe la posibilidad de que las acciones vayan más allá de los límites tradicionales y se coordinen a través de las fronteras nacionales. Los trabajadoras y trabajadores — incluyendo decenas de millones de desempleados, en todo el continente europeo han sufrido un desastre doble: uno desde el colapso de la economía capitalista y el otro de un programa de austeridad que recorta beneficios sociales, mientras que elimina los derechos de los trabajadores. […]

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