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Cuba

Cuba: Raymar Aguado, lifelong student and left-wing dissident: “The strike was a total victory for Cuban university students”

This interview was conducted by El Estornudo on June 23, 2025, with Raymar Aguado. Aguado is an artist and activist with Socialismo Crítico, a left-wing Cuban group that opposes...

The historic rate hike of the telephone monopoly in Cuba

Statement by the collective “Socialists in Struggle” On the morning of May 30, 2025, the...

Statement by the Marxist collective Socialists in Struggle (SeL) on the crisis of the National Electric Power System in Cuba

Written on October 20, 2024 in Havana, Cuba Cuba's national electrical system (SEN) has suffered...

10 things you need to know about Cuba in 2024

If you are a person “on the left” anywhere in the world, you have...

Cuba | Protests against the general blackouts

At the end of last September, hundreds came out to protest in various districts...

Cooperatives in Cuba: headway toward socialism?

Non-farming cooperatives, legalized in December 2012, are the preferred mode of non-state ownership in the "self-employed", micro-enterprises, mixed enterprises and cooperatives sector...

Castro-Chavism: rise and fall

The Cuban and Venezuelan governments can rely on support from most of the world’s left organizations. Their prestige, however, had reached its pinnacle...

Cuban physicians, a victory of the 1959 revolution

The restoration of capitalism in Cuba, held between the years 70-90, among other aberrations, is showing how the great achievements of the 1959...

New foreign investment law shows that capitalism has been restored

Cuba's National Assembly passed a legislation that frees the entry of foreign capital in the country and gives investors legal guarantees and huge...

Who’s afraid of Yoani Sánchez?

We need areal debate on what is going on in Cuba and the Castro regime's true character. Since Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, landed in...

The effects of the capitalism’s return

The debates on Cuba raise passionate controversies. It could not be different. The first successful socialist revolution in Latin America touched generations and...

Why is the Pope visiting Cuba?

Pope BenedictXVI has visited Mexico and Cuba for the first time, as the head of the Catholic Church. This visit which carries out a...

Discussion with the Trotskyist organizations

In August last year, Raul Castro gave a speech to Cuban representatives in which he pointed out: "... I was not elected president to...

Cuba: political revolution or social revolution?

The recent announcement of a 500,000 workers layoff to be held by the Cuban government is a major topic of discussion among left-wing...

Castroist leadership: from expropriation to restoration

Left-wing organisations have been very reluctant to admit that capitalism had been restores in the former USSR and in the remaining countries of...

After Fidel, now what?

Speculations on what will Cuba be like without Fidel have been spreading these years. These speculations performed a leap and turned into important...

Cuba under discussion

Once upon a time there was a country that was almost a colony of the USA, and as it could not be otherwise,...

Debate with the Cuban delegation at the Porto Alegre Forum – Part II

We publish here the second part of the debate with Martín Hernandez (member of IWL-FI) that took place at the World Social Forum...

Debate with the Cuban delegation at the Porto Alegre Forum – Part I

This article was first published in Marxist Alive n° 3, May 2001. Marxism Alive is the theoretical magazine of IWL-FI. In this dossier we...