History

Rosa Hernández Acosta on the Cuban Literacy Campaign

Armed with just some textbooks and a kerosene lantern, Rosa Hernández Acosta taught literacy in rural Cuba without electricity, running water, or paved roads. In […]

Waiting For The Cuban Fruit to Fall !

Just as the magazine Puck related through an 1897 cartoon of Uncle Sam waiting for the fruit of Cuba to fall into his basket, with […]

Ten terrible moments of terrorism against Cuba (+ Videos)

The Cuban Revolution has lived under permanent siege: military, economic, financial, commercial, media. The American empire has been relentless against the small archipelago that has […]

Fidel Castro’s 1960 Speech to the UN Did More for Anti-Colonial Struggle Than the UN’s Hyperbole About ‘Eradicating Colonialism’

This September marked 60 years since Fidel Castro’s first address to the United Nations, in which he delivered a scathing and truthful critique about the […]

Cuba challenges historical manipulation and media war

Our adversaries persist in presenting the 1940s and 50s in pre-revolutionary Cuba as a “golden age,” while the reality was one of sharp inequality, deep […]

Moncada’s Significance in Cuban Revolutionary History

by Ramona Wadi “When Batista’s coup took place in 1952, I’d already formulated a plan for the future. I decided to launch a revolutionary programme […]

CUBA: OPERATION NORTHWOODS, THE FORGOTTEN INSANITY

Did You Know That the US Once Planned to Attack Itself — and Blame Castro? As we watched President Obama being warmly welcomed in Cuba, […]

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the first production of Cuban interferon

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the first production of the Cuban interferon, currently used in the fight against COVID-19 in various countries of the […]

“The doors to the civil struggle are closed to me, the time has come to take our rights, not ask for them…”

May 15 marked the 65th anniversary of Fidel and his fellow Moncada prisoners release from the Model Prison on Isle of Pines Last May 15 […]

Cuba recalls sabotage against kindergarten in Havana

Cuba recalled this Friday the 40th anniversary of the sabotage perpetrated by the counterrevolution in the Le Van Tam kindergarten in the Marianao municipality of […]