Note: This is the first in a two-part series on the history and politics of Salsa in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the famous Fania All-Stars concert, "Live at Yankee Stadium." Introduction A crowd of 40,000 fans rushed onto the field of old Yankee Stadium in...
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. We uplift the revolutionary history of the Black working class and its fundamental position in forging and leading the...
Frank González is the director of Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency. This article is based on a December 2006 interview with Gloria La Riva. It provides background on Prensa Latina and the theoretical and practical considerations of revolutionary journalism, including...
"Nobody can deny that we made an army and that from the beginning we have inculcated gentlemanly and humane principles to that army. … The armed institutions should offer services in peace, services to the people, services of a technical order. What we will not have...
Speech by Gloria La Riva at PSL forum in San Francisco, Jan. 2, 2015 Dec. 17, 2014, was an historic day for Cuba. On that morning, the three remaining Cuban Five members in U.S. prison flew home to freedom. At the same time, Alan Gross, an American who was arrested in...
Reposted from March 25 VenezuelaAnalysis.com In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is...
Speech given by Raul Castro Ruz, General of the Cuban Army, and President of the Council of State and Ministries, at the Fifth Ordinary Period of Sessions for the Seventh Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, at the Convention Center in Havana,...
It is more important than ever for communists, in general, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, specifically, to state our position on the Cuban Revolution. The capitalist media, the government, legions of academics and think tank policy “experts” are busy at...
The following is a report submitted by Gloria La Riva for discussion at the May 2010 meeting of the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. In light of recent economic developments in Cuba, and the heightening of U.S. aggression against the island...