Gonzalo Armúa and Jean Jores Pierre When in March 1945 the Allied Army was preparing to cross the Rhine River, advance on Germany and thus give the final blow to Nazism, among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and colonial troops was a young West Indian. He wore a Croix de Guerre medal for his…
Category: Latin America
#OmaliTaughtMe: The Question of Our Land
The question of our land in the African and Mexican struggle for liberation! A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio! This week, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be joined by Secretary General of the African Socialist International, Luwezi Kinshasa, Tafarie Mugeri, Chairman of APSP-Occupied Azania, and representatives from…
#OmaliTaughtMe: African and Mexican Women in the Struggle for Liberation!
A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio! This week, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be joined by representatives from the African National Women’s Organization, President Yejide Orunmilla, and ANWO’s Occupied Azania (South Africa) Coordinator, Connie Hutchison, as well as the Union del Barrio Women’s Commission: Adriana Simon, Erica…
#OmaliTaughtMe: Socialism vs Capitalism
Uhuru, comrades! This week is the third episode in an #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization: Union del Barrio. This week we discuss socialism vs. capitalism, an important topic for today’s heating political climate. We will be joined by Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Union del Barrio’s Secretary General, Benjamin Prado. This episode has…
#OmaliTaughtMe: Unity of African and Mexican People
Uhuru, Comrades! Introducing an #OmaliTaughtMe special series: A discussion with #ChairmanOmaliYeshitela and Unión del Barrio’s Under-Secretary General Benjamín Prado on #CommunityControlOfThePolicd, #DefundThePolice, and more. Join us this Sunday as we discuss the Unity of #African and #Mexican people in the struggle against the colonial state! Home
The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
Lenin: The Leader, the Reality, the People
Luis Toledo Sande Work by Mario Sandoval, courtesy of José Martí National Library. Photo: Granma On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birth, Granma features an essay about the Russian revolutionary’s ideas in Cuba The arrival of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s ideas to Cuba has a history, inseparable from socialist ideals and the…
A New Revolutionary Subject
Marta Harnecker and Tassos Tsakiroglou This exchange between Marta Harnecker and Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou was conducted in advance of the conference on 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: Reflections for the Twenty-First Century, held in Athens in January 2017. The interview first appeared in the Greek newspaper Efmerida ton Syntakton. What follows is a revised…
The “Other” Farewell Letter from Ernesto Che Guevara to Fidel Castro is Published
Javier Larraín Just a few days ago, in the city of Havana, the Ernesto Che Guevara Study Center and the publisher Ocean Sur presented Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967, a voluminous copy that groups and classifies dozens of letters written by Ernesto Che Guevara throughout his life; most of them known, but distributed in…
Che Guevara: A Singular Letter
María del Carmen Ariet García This article is taken from volume 8 of the journal Paradigma, Anuario Institucional del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, dedicated to the Socialist Transition in Cuba, which will be presented soon. The letter to which reference is made appears in the book “Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967”. “I write…
Che and Cuban Solidarity in Africa
Tortilla Con Sal CollectiveThe most original and radical thing about the Cuban revolution has been its unconditional human and revolutionary solidarity. In the field of international relations, it was the international recognition of that commitment that frustrated the attempts of the United States and its allies to isolate Cuba from the rest of the world….
Guevara in the Reflections of Anastás Mikoyán
Ernesto Che Guevera with Anastás Mikoyán, first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Excerpt from the book “Anatomy of the Caribbean Crisis” by Sergo Mikoyán, Chapter XIV, “Che Guevara”. Fragments of an interview with journalist I.R. Grigulievich granted by Anastás Mikoyán, a few months before his death. You were able to meet…
