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By Jordi Rosich
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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Jordi Rosich, who recently took part in the Havana Book
Fair, looks at the different pressures that Cuba is facing. He highlights the
danger of capitalist restoration, particularly the so-called Chinese model, and
what this would mean for the Cuban revolution. But the future of Cuba has not
yet been decided. It also depends on the spread of the revolution
internationally.
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By Ariel Dacal Díaz
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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Last
November 6 in the evening, on the eve of another anniversary of the
October Revolution, around five hundred young Cubans gathered to
celebrate the occasion. Still, those who find this piece of news
unlikely or perplexing, regardless of what side they’re on, should make
an extra reading for good measure: that’s right, Cuban youths hailed the
Revolution.
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By Fundación F Engels
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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This was the
fourth time that the F. Engels Foundation was present on the Havana International Book Fair. The results could not
have been better, with a marked increase in the sale of books and documents
from last year.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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This year, for the first time one of Trotsky's key works, the Revolution
Betrayed, was presented by the Frederick Engels Foundation at the Havana
Book Fair, stimulating big interest. A special edition of a theoretical
magazine on China,
including the analysis of the International Marxist Tendency on this subject
was also being sold. It is clear that a layer of the most conscious workers and
youth in Cuba
are looking far a Marxist alternative to the prospect of "market economics"
being reintroduced to the island.
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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As the news came out about Castro not standing again for president, the
comrades manning the Frederick
Engels Foundation at the Havana Book Fair sent us their impressions of how
people are reacting and what situation is opening up in Cuba.
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By Fred Weston and Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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On Tuesday, February 19, Fidel Castro announced he was no longer going to stand for the position as President of Cuba. All the talk in the bourgeois is
of the need to remove the regime, but there is no mention of the real social
gains of the Cuban Revolution. We do not stand with these vultures. We defend
the Cuban Revolution by working for an all-Latin American and international
revolution.
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By Frank Josué Solar, University Professor, Cuba
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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Cuba is reaching a turning point. Cuban professor Frank
Solar points out the dangers and opportunities the Revolution is facing. See also
in Spanish.
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By Darrall Cozens
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
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The Cuban revolution has made many spectacular advances, but it faces serious problems. From the streets of Havana Darrall Cozens offers an eyewitness account of these successes, challenges, and the debates that are taking place in the island.
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By El Militante - www.elmilitante.org
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
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The Spanish Marxist journal, El Militante, recently
interviewed Frank Josué Solar, a Cuban university lecturer and communist. As he
says, “the only way out is the extension of the revolution throughout Latin
America to create a socialist federation.”
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
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Che Guevara was a dedicated revolutionary and Communist. He was also an internationalist and understood that to defend the Cuban revolution it was necessary to spread it to other parts of the world. He attempted this in Africa and Latin America. This was his strong side. His weak side was that he saw the revolution fundamentally as a peasant guerilla struggle and did not fully understand the central role of the working class in the socialist revolution.
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
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Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara was executed by
Bolivian troops near the town of La Higuera on 9 October 1967, following an
ambush. The operation was planned by the CIA and organized by US Special
Forces. On the 40th anniversary of his death it is appropriate that we make a
balance sheet of this outstanding revolutionary and martyr. Alan Woods in a
two-part article looks at the evolution of Che Guevara from his early days to
the day he was killed.
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By David Rey - El Militante Argentina
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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During her stay in Buenos Aires at the end of June, El
Militante Argentina interviewed the Cuban revolutionary Celia Hart. In this interview, Celia tells us about the role of Fidel in the Cuban revolution and the perspectives for Cuba, about the relevance of the ideas of Che and Leon Trotsky, and about the Venezuelan revolution and the tasks for Latin American revolutionaries.
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By National Committee To Free The Cuban Five - www.freethefive.org
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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In the first ever media interview given by any of the Cuban Five, BBC's Newshour's Claire Bolderson spoke to Gerardo Hernandez from his maximum security prison in Victorville, California. Audio and transcript.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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The decision by the US
authorities to release the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles exposes before the
eyes of the world the hypocritical attitude of the United States government to
terrorism.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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On March 6th the official organ of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party Granma published a translation of Alan Woods' article War Drums in Washington or Bush's Last stand.
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By Octavio Borges, Granma
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
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Here we publish the English translation of a recent article published in Granma after the Cuban edition of Bolshevism, the Road to Revolution by Alan Woods was launched at the 2007 Havana Book Fair.
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By Marta Cabrales, Prensa Latina
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
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Here we publish the English translation of an article published last year in Granma after the Cuban edition of Reason in Revolt was launched at the Havana Book Fair with Alan Woods and Adan Chavez speaking.
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By our correspondent in Cuba
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
 In presenting his book on the history of the Bolshevik
party, Alan Woods was able to set the record straight on what really happened
in the Russian Revolution, in particular emphasising the role of Leon Trotsky.
The fact that Trotsky’s books on sale at the stand of the Frederick Engels
Foundation were sold, once again, is an indication that on the island there is
a thirst for the genuine ideas of Marxism.
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By our correspondent in Cuba
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
 Following the spectacular success at the Havana Book Fair,
where for the third year running, the Frederick Engels Foundation achieved
record sales, Alan Woods went to Santiago
de Cuba to address two very successful meetings at the
Universidad de Oriente.
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By Frederick Engels Foundation - www.engels.org
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 The Frederick Engels Foundation is intervening at the Havana
Book Fair for the third consecutive year. Again, the works of Trotsky are
proving to be the main attraction, together with other Marxist works. So far
two successful book presentations have been held by the Foundation.
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By Pablo Roldan
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Thursday, 07 December 2006 |
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It is clear that Castro is now very ill. The fact that he
has not appeared in public for some time would seem to confirm this. The
capitalists of the world are now looking eagerly to the post-Castro era where
they hope to make deals with some sections of the Cuban state bureaucracy to
introduce measures favourable to the return of capitalism. But the swing to the
left in the whole of Latin America and especially in Venezuela is working against
this.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 |
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On 12th September 1998, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero,
Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and René González, were arrested in Miami.
They were combating reactionary exile Cuban terrorist networks. The US
authorities ignored this and later the 5 received severe prison sentences. Only
international solidarity and continuous and unrelenting action can end their
imprisonment.
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By Andrew Kennedy and Charley Allan - Morning Star
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Thursday, 19 October 2006 |
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Yesterday's Morning Star published an interview with Celia Hart. "If
revolutionaries manage to capitalise on this [revolutionary] process to our advantage,
a new era of socialist revolutions will begin worldwide. But
history won't wait for us and we in the organised left-wing ranks must
grasp the rich and splendid process now open to us."
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By Cuban News Agency
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
The Cuban News Agency (CNA) issued a pres release about the blocking of the delivery of books from the Frederick Engels Foundation to the Miami Five. Read the original here.
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By the Frederick Engels Foundation
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
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The Miami 5 have been prevented from receiving books from the
Frederick Engels Foundation. Besides the other human rights violations the 5
have suffered, they now suffer political censorship and a denial of the right to
free speech. Their
struggle of the 5 is our struggle and we will not stop until they are free.
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By Marina Burik in Kiev
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
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We received this report on the activities in the
Ukraine in support of the Cuban “Miami Five”, which we are making available to
our readers. It underlines the hypocrisy and double standards of the US
Administration, which in words condemns “terrorism” but in practice keeps five
Cubans in prison who were actually combating terrorism.
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By Wim Benda - www.vonk.org
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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The bourgeois internationally are hoping that when Castro dies
their plans to reintroduce capitalism on the island can be concretised. The
imperialists have different opinions about how this is to be achieved, but the
real threat to the Cuban Revolution comes from within.
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By the International Marxist Tendency
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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The following resolution in support of the Miami 5 was passed unanimously at the recent World Congress of the International Marxist Tendency.
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By Ron Ridenour - Morning Star
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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We publish an article from Morning
Star by Ron Ridenour, in which he examines the kind of books being
published in today's Cuba and comments on the
changing intellectual climate in which the ideas of Trotsky are more and more
discussed.
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By Pablo Roldan
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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Fidel Castro’s illness has posed what will come once he departs
this world. The capitalist are looking at different ways of restoring
capitalism. Within the state and party in Cuba there are clearly
pro-capitalist elements. It is the duty of the workers and youth of the world
to defend the Cuban revolution.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
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The following resolution in solidarity with the
Cuban Revolution was unanimously passed at the World Congress of the International Marxist
Tendency taking place in Barcelona.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 28 July 2006 |
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This is the foreword written by Alan Woods
for Ariel Dacal and Francisco Brown Infante's book recently published in Cuba by
Editorial Ciencias Sociales. Already launched in Havana,
their book "Russia:
from real socialism to real capitalism" is an interesting analysis of the
reasons for and consequences of the fall of the USSR.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
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Today marks the 53rd anniversary
of that day when a handful of courageous young Cuban revolutionaries attempted
to overthrow the tyrannical regime by attacking the Moncada barracks. Although
they failed, they prepared the ground for victory a few years later. More than
ever the Cuban revolution requires the support of the international labour
movement.
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By Frederick Engels Foundation
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
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Now that the Havana Book Fair is over we can give a general overview of the event. Over half a million people attended, and for the second year running we, the Spanish Frederick Engels Foundation, were there with our publications. Again there was keen interest in Trotsky’s works. The Cuban edition of Reason in Revolt is selling very well, and there are plans for a Cuban edition of Alan Woods’ book on Venezuela. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 21 February 2006 |
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The last leg of Alan Woods’ speaking tour of Cuba was in Santiago de Cuba. He spoke at two meetings at the Universidad de Oriente. There was keen interest and people noted the difference between genuine Marxism and the stale old Soviet manuals. A large part of the discussion was dedicated to the situation in Venezuela. Alan insisted that the revolution in Venezuela “will not be completed until a radical expropriation of the capitalist class takes place”. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 14 February 2006 |
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More than 65 people gathered on Monday, February 13th at the Casa Don Fernando Ortiz of the Havana University for the second launch of Reason in Revolt in Havana. The launch had been jointly organised by the Spanish Marxist publishing house F. Engels Foundation and the Cuban Ciencias Sociales, which have jointly printed the first Cuban edition of the book. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
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On February 9th, Alan Woods was invited to speak at the Centre of European Studies (CEE) in Havana. The meeting was attended by researchers from the CEE, journalists and members of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos, ICAP). The main theme of the discussion was the state of the class struggle in Europe. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 10 February 2006 |
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Alan Woods’ visit to Cuba has had an important echo, in particular in the official news agencies of Cuba and Venezuela, such as Prensa Latina and the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN) and Cuban TV. They refer to the book Reason in Revolt written by Alan together with Ted Grant. Significantly, they also quote key elements of Alan’s speech in which he highlights the fact that to guarantee the victory of the revolution in Venezuela it is necessary to expropriate the capitalists and landlords. To view the texts and photos that have been published by these agencies we are providing the links. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 09 February 2006 |
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Yesterday the Cuban edition of Reason in Revolt was launched at the Havana Book Fair with Alan Woods and Adan Chavez speaking. A common thread in the discussion was that there was an urgent need for such a book, which demonstrates the validity of dialectical materialism and how it can be applied to all spheres of life, in particular scientific study. The publication of the book in Cuba is a tremendous achievement and hopefully more such publications will be forthcoming in the near future. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
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The Spanish Frederick Engels Foundation, after last year’s successful intervention, is once more at the Havana Book Fair, which opened over the weekend. Last year there was great interest in Trotsky’s works. This year the intervention will have an even higher profile with Alan Woods speaking at the fair, launching the Cuban edition of Reason In Revolt. He will also speak at several other meetings. |
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By Celia Hart
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Thursday, 17 February 2005 |
 Celia Hart comments on her experience with the comrades from the Spanish Marxist current El Militante, spreading Trotsky’s ideas at the Havana bookfair.
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By El Militante
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Tuesday, 15 February 2005 |
More than half a million people visited the Havana International Book
Fair which has just closed. The long queues that formed in order to buy
books were an impressive sight. But the Fair is not only a place for
the buying and selling of books, but also an open space for debate and
discussion of left wing ideas. |
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By El Militante
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Monday, 07 February 2005 |
 Around thirty-five people participated in the presentation of the book Reason in Revolt,
held at the International Havana Book Fair. Celia Hart Santamaría
introduced the event and pointed out this was a very courageous book of
struggle, and that the book had appeared at a time when the ideas of
Marxism were being vilified.
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By Marta Cabrales
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Thursday, 03 February 2005 |
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The hugely succesful book by Alan Woods and Ted Grant, Reason in Revolt,
is being presented at the Havana Book fair. We reproduce an article
published by the Cuban Prensa Latina media, which highlights the
presence of the Spanish Fundación Federico Engels at the 15th Havana
Book Fair, taking place from the 3rd to 13th February 2005. Here is the
link to the official program of February 6, when the book will be presented. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 15 October 2004 |
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Five Cuban security agents were involved in uncovering terrorist activities against Cuba. These activities were being organised by anti-Cuban Miami mafia elements based in the USA. Instead of arresting the terrorists the US authorities have arrested and handed down severe jail sentences on the security agents. This shows the double standards of Bush and his so-called war on terror! |
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 09 September 2004 |
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We publish a resolution, written by the editor of Marxist.com Alan
Woods, which
was defended by Celia Hart in the seminar entitled "The Utopia We
Need", held in Havana on Friday September 10, 2004. The conference took
place in the Hispano-American Centre in Malecón. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 03 September 2004 |
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The following resolution on the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions was put before a meeting of almost 300 Marxists from 24 countries, which was held in Spain in the first week of August. |
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By Alan Woods in Mexico City
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Friday, 21 May 2004 |
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A diplomatic crisis has opened up between Mexico and Cuba. Mexico's Vicente Fox
government has demanded the recall of the Mexican ambassador from Havana and
ordered the Cuban diplomats to leave. The response of the masses was anything
but favourable. Thousands demonstrated in Mexico, while a million marched
through Havana. This has deepened the political crisis in Mexico and further
undermined Fox and his right wing PAN government. |
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By Alan Woods and Roberto Sarti
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Tuesday, 13 May 2003 |
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The execution of three men who had hijacked a ferry and the harsh sentences handed out to 74 opponents of the Cuban regime in April has generated nearly universal condemnation, at least on the part of the media and most governments. When we analyze this issue, we have to base ourselves on a class position. The interests of the working class come first, both inside and outside Cuba. |
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By David Rey
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Monday, 15 July 2002 |
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 is one of the most significant events of the last 50 years.
The elimination of capitalism and landlordism and the introduction of a nationalised,
planned economy allowed collosal advances to be made. But the disappearance of the USSR
has had catastrophic consequences for the Cuban economy. David Rey looks at the current
perspectives and the tasks of revolutionaries.
Translated from La
revolución cubana en la encrucijada de David Rey
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 15 January 1999 |
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Forty years ago, on January 1st 1959 a general strike paralysed Cuba and forced dictator
Batista to flee the country. In a few days the July 26 Movement guerrillas, led by Fidel
Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara entered the capital Havana and were received as heroes by
the masses. The Cuban revolution had succeeded. What was the programme of that movement?
What was the social basis of that revolution? In order to understand these and other
questions we must look back a few years. |
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