{"id":8604,"date":"2025-01-26T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:36:41","slug":"book-launch-on-cuba-reflections-on-70-years-of-revolution-and-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/book-launch-on-cuba-reflections-on-70-years-of-revolution-and-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK LAUNCH | On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If9EmLNf_jM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle with Vijay Prashad, who co-authored the book with Noam Chomsky.An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters)\u2014and the outsized influence of its example\u2014have traversed the globe, from Venezuela to Angola, its political and economic future remain uncertain as the Castro era comes to a close and the U.S. embargo proceeds unabated. Through an intimate conversation between two of the country\u2019s most astute observers of international politics, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, On Cuba traces Cuban history from the early days of the 1950s revolution to the present, interrogating U.S. interventions and extracting lessons on U.S. power and influence in the Western Hemisphere along the way.This event will be hybrid.c$<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle with Vijay Prashad, who co-authored the book with Noam Chomsky.An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/book-launch-on-cuba-reflections-on-70-years-of-revolution-and-struggle\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":8605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2835,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/us-failure-to-recognize-cubas-medical-efforts-during-covid-is-due-to-an-innate-fear-of-linking-socialism-with-anything-positive\/","url_meta":{"origin":8604,"position":0},"title":"US\u2019 failure to recognize Cuba\u2019s medical efforts during Covid is due to an innate fear of linking socialism with anything positive","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"FILE PHOTO: An SAA flight with a Cuban Health Brigade consisting of 217 Cuban health proffesionals arrives at Waterkloof Airforce Base on April 27, 2020 in Pretoria, South Africa\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0\u00a0Getty Images \/ Dino Lloyd\/ Gallo Images Daniel Kovalik\u00a0teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Health-Brigade.jpg?fit=980%2C551&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Health-Brigade.jpg?fit=980%2C551&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Health-Brigade.jpg?fit=980%2C551&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Health-Brigade.jpg?fit=980%2C551&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1510,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-the-only-country-with-genuine-internationalism-affirms-noam-chomsky\/","url_meta":{"origin":8604,"position":1},"title":"Cuba, the only country with genuine internationalism, affirms Noam Chomsky","author":"Editorial Team","date":"April 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The only country that has demonstrated genuine internationalism has been Cuba, said the American philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky when analyzing the lessons of the pandemic of the new coronavirus present today worldwide. 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