Interview with Fidel Castro (Part 2)
* Fidel answers questions from the editor, Carmen Lira Saade
(Taken from the Mexican La Jornada newspaper)
Although there is nothing to indicate any unease on his part, I think that Fidel is not going to like what I’m going to say to him:
“Comandante, the whole [...]

First, an axiomatic assertion: the communist conception of the United Front is by no means meant to enable the politics of liberal consensus to come into its own.  If anything, it is meant to extinguish the condition of possibility for such politics. The United Front – at least in the realm [...]

Humanity Deserves to Live
Fidel Castro’s Speech to Students
September 4, 2010 |

We bring you the official translation of the speech by the former Cuban president, currently the chief advisor to the government of his brother Raul Castro.   Fidel is also still the head of the Cuban Communist [...]

Summary of the interview Given by Fidel Castro to Venezuelan Journalist
VANESSA DAVIES— We greet the people of Venezuela, the people of Cuba and Latin America who will be following us during this interview.
Comandante Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution and continental leader has made some reflections and some warnings about the [...]

As part of his incessant battle to convince US President Barack Obama not to start a nuclear war, the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, met on Monday with Cuban scientists to speak about nuclear weapons and the dangers of a nuclear conflict.

In this planet, only 100 (nuclear) explosions [...]

After addressing the Cuban National Assembly of the Peoples Power in an extraordinary session on Saturday, the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro exchanged and answered questions with the deputies about the possibility of a new war breaking out in the middle east and its consequences.

Cuban News Agency, Cuba, Aug 7

Parliament [...]

Zinn points out, with his trademark clarity, how the use of the word “we” blends governments together with peoples and serves to equate our own people with our military, while we demonize the people of other lands because of actions by their governments.

by: David Swanson

The late Howard Zinn’s new book “The [...]

CONTROVERSY / POLÉMIQUE

The Relevance and Utility of the Trade Union as a Legitimate Question

The continuity of struggle is easy: the workers need only themselves and the boss in front of them. But the continuity of organization is a rare and complex thing: as soon as it becomes institutionalized it [...]

Excessive Centralization Creates Inefficiency and Prevents Authontic Popular Protagonism

by Marta Harnecker
1. There Is No Popular Protagonism without Decentralization
Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest [...]