Cuba: the island of resistance, a people who refuse to be defeated
Cuba’s defiant struggle against the longest economic siege in modern history, is a story of ingenuity, dignity, and moral victory against US imperial cruelty.
The Nobel Peace Prize: a Geopolitical Tool
By Cuban Ambassador Pedro Monzon Barata The Core Contradiction and its Hypocritical Framework Since its creation by Alfred Nobel in 1895, the Nobel Peace Prize has been held up as the ultimate symbol for peace. But let’s be […]
Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not
Published way back in 2007 at Online Opinion by Tim Anderson and still relevant in 2025 In an age of propaganda and pseudo-democracy, the strongest opponents of imperial power are subject to the most ferocious attacks. One result […]
How Biden is starving Cuba
by William LeoGrande, original post here: https://www.wola.org/2021/05/biden-inaction-aggravating-cuba-food-crisis/ If President Biden wants to support human rights in Cuba and empower the Cuban people, he can start by alleviating the food crisis by ending Trump’s prohibition on remittances and restoring […]
Key elements of Cuban internationalism
Presentation by Dr Tim Anderson at the ACFS (Australia-Cuba Friendship Societies) national consultation, April 2024
Cuban economy, under blockade, is slowly recovering after the COVID recession.
COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA ECONOMÍA, CIERRE DEL 2021 Y I SEMESTRE 2022Noveno Período Ordinario de Sesiones de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, IX LegislaturaJulio de 2022 Full report here:
The Decadent Empire
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2022 from Havana. First posted here: https://www.resumen-english.org/2022/07/the-decadent-empire/ With a stroke of a pen the majority of the US Supreme Court has just set women’s rights in the United States back 50 […]
Mexico’s AMLO calls for end to blockade, urges Latin American unity amid “US economic decline”
by Benjamin Norton, original post here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/10/cuba-mexico-amlo-us-blockade/ Mexican President López Obrador took a historic trip to Cuba, where he called for an end to the US blockade and criticized right-wing “coup-plotters.” He said Latin America should form a […]
Max Lesnik: the Cuban dissident who stayed loyal to the revolution
By Salim Lamrani, August 15, 2021, translated by Walter Lippmann for Cuba News, original post here: https://walterlippmann.com/conversations-with-max-lesnik/ “In reality, the United States expects a total and definitive surrender from the Cuban people.” Born in 1930 in Cuba, in […]
The Cuban position on Russia, Ukraine and NATO
From MINREX https://www.minrex.gob.cu/en/cuba-champions-solution-guarantees-security-and-sovereignty-all-statement-revolutionary-government Cuba’s relations with Ukraine include accepting and treating 25,000 Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10xE1CcKxQ Cuba champions a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all Statement by […]
World figures say: end the U.S. blockade and destabilisation of Cuba / Personalidades del mundo dicen: cesen el Bloqueo y la desestabilizacion de Cuba
Below, letter and list of signatories, led by Dilma Roussef, former president of Brazil; Rafaél Correa, former president of Ecuador; José Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras; and Ernesto Samper Pizano, former president of Colombia.
Riots in Cuba: What’s going on?
by Helen Yaffe, 20 July 21021, original post here: https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/20/whats-actually-going-on-in-cuba/ On Sunday 11 July, dozens of anti-government protests, apparently coordinated via social media, took place simultaneously throughout Cuba. In several places, including in San Antonio on the outskirts […]
Day Zero in Cuba: eliminating the dual currency system, by Helen Yaffe
Full article below. Original post at NLR here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/day-zero-in-cuba HELEN YAFFE02 FEBRUARY 2021ECONOMICS The first of January 2021 was known as ‘Day Zero’ in Cuba. After almost three decades of operating with a dual currency, Cuba’s national peso […]
José Martí: Our America (1891)
A Cuban classic. English translation from this site: https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Marti_Jose_Our-America.html The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that be can be mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings […]
Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not
by Tim Anderson, 2007, first post here: https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5609 In an age of propaganda and pseudo-democracy, the strongest opponents of imperial power are subject to the most ferocious attacks. One result of this is that many of the firmly […]
Cuba’s five COVID-19 vaccines, by Helen Yaffe
“Despite its limited material resources, Cuba is responsible for developing two of only 23 coronavirus vaccines to have entered phase III trials anywhere in the world – and it has another three on the way. Helen Yaffe (University […]
Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting, by Dr Helen Yaffe
First posted 30 March 2021 at Counter Punch, here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/30/cuba-libre-to-be-covid-libre-five-vaccines-and-counting/ On 23 March 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of Conservative Party backbenchers: ‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because […]
Nobel prize for the Cuban Doctors
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Korea: Dispelling myths about Cuban doctors
Jeong I-na, former professor at the Busan University of Foreign Studies, wants to set the record straight about the public healthcare system in Cuba. Full PDF below, original post here: http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/PRINT/964270.html
La industria biofarmacéutica cubana en el combate contra la pandemia de COVID-19 / The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (Esp)
The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]
Mapa regional de la cooperación médica cubana (ESP), por Sunamis Fabelo Concepción, Yoslán Silverio González
Detailed Spanish language report on the work of Cuban Medical Brigades from 1963 to 2020. English language abstract below. Full PDF report below, original post here: https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/208384 “This work addresses the main milestones in the history of Cuban […]
Sanctions as Siege Warfare, by Tim Anderson
Chapter Three on ‘Sanctions’, from Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East’ (2019). “This chapter studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and so part of the composite aggression which includes […]
Jose Marti and the United States: A Further Interpretation, by John Kirk
Journal article from 1977 on Marti and the USA
The socio-political thought of Jose Marti, by John Kirk
This 1977 PhD thesis (300pp) provides a useful overview of the key socio-political ideas of Cuba’s key independence writer, Jose Marti, whose complete works are in 29 volumes and in Spanish, here. https://www.clacso.org.ar/coleccion_jose_marti/index.php Jose Marti (1853-1895) was the […]
COVID-19: Need to Cooperate Despite Political Differences, by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement on April 16, 2020. PDF below, first translated post here: https://www.resumen-english.org/2020/04/the-covid-19-pandemic-makes-clear-the-need-to-cooperate-despite-political-differences/