Source: pslweb.org
By: Sam Holguin
Socialist innovation, not social unrest
Cuba is embarking on an ambitious project to tackle the food crisis. Cuba’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Juan Pérez Lamas told journalists in early June that the country’s rice imports could be halved within five years. In order to maintain current rice consumption levels, it will be necessary to […]
August 2, 2008 – 10:26 pm
From workers.org
Ileana Núñez Mordoche and Larry Hamm
celebrate July 26th anniversary.
Photo: Roberto Mercado
This July 26 marked the 55th year since the beginning of the armed struggle in Cuba, which culminated into a revolutionary victory led by Fidel Castro on Jan. 1, 1959. The opening salvo was […]
August 1, 2008 – 12:46 pm
Fidel Castro claimed himself as Marxist-Leninist but political scientist Grover Furr says that Fidel Castro was never a communist but he was a reformer. Read the below paragraph quoted by Grover Furr on Fidel Castro and Cuba.
Castro was and is basically a reformer. He never was a communist, in the sense of someone trying to […]
Review by Simon Butler
19 July 2008
Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro
By Fabian Escalante
Ocean Press, 2006
RRP $28, 229 pages
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro holds one world record most politicians would not envy. He has survived at least 634 assassination attempts.
The caveat “at least” is necessary because this figure only includes the plots actually […]
Federico Fuentes, Caracas
26 July 2008
Commenting on how much the two had in common — same age, three children, similar music tastes — Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on April 11 that “perhaps we represent the new generation of leaders in Latin America”.
He added, however, that one difference still remained: […]
World Proletarian Revolution Starts From the Third World
