In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, indications that the cycle of confirmed Covid-19 cases may have reached a high plateau; secondly, the Cuban President’s message of thanks to the Cuban people; thirdly, an explosion of cultural creativity in Cuba in the context of Covid-19; fourthly, confirmation of the effectiveness of the Cuban drug Interferon Alfa 2B; and fifthly, a Cuban columnist warns of post-Covid-19 efforts by the powerful to deceive the people.... More


Rupture with the neocolonial hegemonic power... More


Cuban medical university students doing door-to-door “active inquiries,” looking for persons who may have had contact with confirmed Covid-19 cases

In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the issue of asymptomatic confirmed cases of Covid-19; secondly, the treatment of Covid-19 patients with a team approach; thirdly, the support of the government ministries and the mass organizations for the Cuban Covid-19 plan; and fourthly, Cuban commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin.... More


Fidel called upon the national bourgeoisie to stay in Cuba and to manage their companies in alliance with the revolutionary project.

The Cuban Revolution and the National Bourgeoisie... More


Cuba is launching an exemplary battle against the Covid-19 pandemic

In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the battle in Cuba against Covid-19; secondly, the departure of a second Cuban medical brigade to Italy; thirdly, the reception of a Cuban medical mission in Venezuela, where two models in conflict in the world are proclaimed; fourthly, Cuban commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the declaration of the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution; and fifthly, an article in Juventud Rebelde entitled, “One must think of another manner of constructing the world.”... More


On July 17, 1959, Fidel explains to the people that revolutionary leaders are not necessarily prime ministers.

At a meeting in the Sierra Maestra on May 3, 1958, the July 26 Movement named Manuel Urrutia as its candidate for president of the provisional government that would be formed upon the fall of Batista.... More


Cuban President Díaz-Canel says: “If we are confronting with success Covid-19, it is because of the work of the Revolution.”

In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the battle in Cuba against Covid-19; secondly, a message of gratitude to Cuba from the Communist Party of Italy; and thirdly, an editorial in the Granma declaring, “Only socialism saves.”... More


 The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959 was a decisive revolutionary step that signaled the political will of the revolution to break with the neo-colonial order

Decisive revolutionary steps... More


Created in 2005 by Fidel Castro as an emergency team to support New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, 18 Henry Reeve brigades have severed in 22 countries.

In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the battle in Cuba against Covid-19; and secondly, Cuban medical brigades confronting Covid-19 in the world.... More


Defying the expectations of most Marxist theorists of the time, the Cuban guerrilla army marched to victory and forced the flight of the dictator on January 1,

Revolutionary practice unifies... More


Cuba has sent medical brigades to eleven countries to fight the global pandemic

In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the battle in Cuba against Covid-19; and secondly, an article in Granma reflecting on the geopolitical implications of the new coronavirus.... More


“No one has the right to lose faith in the future of humanity” – Fidel Castro.

Revolutionary faith ... More


The Cuban pharmaceutical product Interferon Alfa 2B is among the medicines used to treat patients infected with the new coronavirus SARS Cov-2

By Charles McKelvey ... More


Marxism-Leninism with a Fidelist stamp ... More


In today’s “This week in Cuba,” we review, first, the commemoration in Cuba of International Women’s Day; and secondly, the plan implemented in Cuba to confront COVID-19. By Charles McKelvey... More


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