and Ninos tocando comparsa, Habana Cuba... » read this article

After the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, Dr. Melissa Barber received a call asking her to help treat people left injured and living in squalid conditions. “There was no question,” said Barber, 30, who was born and raised in the Bronx and worked in quality assessment at St. Barnabas... » read this article

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— More than 95,000 patients have been treated here to date here by the Cuban medical brigade since the January 12 earthquake, and 4,500 operations have been performed. However, as brigade coordinator Carlos Alberto García says, in looking toward the country’s future, the most important part begins today with... » read this article

In late 2009 the New York-based group Human Rights Watch published a report titled New Castro, Same Cuba.  Based on the testimony of former prisoners, the report systematically condemns the Cuban government as an "abusive" regime that uses its "repressive machinery . . . draconian laws and sham trials to... » read this article

Solidarity with Haiti’s people — a Workers World statement The earthquake that flattened Haiti’s capital and brought a new calamity to millions of people in that heroic but impoverished country has awakened calls for solidarity and aid from the vast majority of the world’s people. The number one priority is... » read this article

Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign... » read this article

At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that... » read this article

Reflections by comrade Fidel The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the... » read this article

An employee of a CIA front organization that also funds opposition groups in Venezuela was detained in Cuba last week. An article published in the December 12th edition of the New York Times revealed the detention of a US government contract employee in Havana this past December 5th. The employee,... » read this article

We are posting this human interest story to alert readers about the continuing plight of the Cuban Five freedom fighters locked away in US Federal Prisons for conducting anti-terrorism actions to protect their homeland. On December 8, two of the Cuban five will be resentened in Miami Federal Court. Translation... » read this article

SPEECH BY FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRÍGUEZ PARRILLA AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ITEM "NECESSITY OF ENDING THE ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EMBARGO IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST CUBA". (NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28, 2009 Mr. President, Permanent Representatives and Delegates, Alexis García Iribar was born... » read this article

Reflections by Comrade Fidel  Last October 1st commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China.  On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong presided over the first parade of the Peoples’ Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square as leader of the Communist Party of China. ... » read this article

The world upside down: when the cannibal boxers were right but the revolutionaries won the fight. The so called Juanes’ Concert or Concert for Peace that was held last September 20th at Havana's Revolution Square has provoked the umpteenth exchange of blows among those who favor revolution and those who... » read this article

Cuba is facing the challenge of boosting agricultural output under difficult climate conditions and on soils badly deteriorated by erosion, salinity and other problems. And scientists have a strategic role to play, provided they do not sit in their laboratories but get out into the fields where the action is.... » read this article

August, 29 2009 - On Varadero Beach, a hail of bullets fired from a speedboat hit their target, shooting up the Hotel Melia, one of Cuba's main resort hotels.  A week later, the Miami Herald reported that it had received a "war communiqué" boasting that "On the evening of October... » read this article

The concept of nation emerged from the combination of common elements such as history, language, culture, costumes, laws, institutions and others related to the material and spiritual life of human communities. Bolivar, who worked the great heroic deeds that made him be known as ‘The Liberator’ during his struggle for... » read this article

I wasn’t elected as President to restore capitalism in Cuba or to surrender the Revolution. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism, not to destroy it, affirmed Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday.   While closing the ordinary session of the National Assembly of the People’s Power... » read this article

On May 20, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) published a statement on Cuba declaring that "anyone can browse the internet...unless they are Cuban." To support its claim, RWB offered a videotaped scene filmed in a hotel with a hidden camera in which a Cuban is denied internet access. The organization... » read this article

"Political Affairs Magazine" interviews Elena Mora and John Bachtell, members of the National Board of the Communist Party USA and who traveled in late May to Cuba for celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. There, they met with representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba and leaders... » read this article

Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed  Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana. But being a young, black woman meant the challenge she had to face to become what she is... » read this article