FIDEL CASTRO – May Day is for the “Poor of the World”

Reflections by Comrade Fidel
THE DAY FOR THE POOR OF THE WORLD
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2009/ing/f30040…
Tomorrow is International Workers’ Day.
Karl Marx called to unity: “Workers of the world unite”, although many of the poor were not workers. Lenin, who was even more far-reaching, made a call to the peasants and the colonized peoples for them to struggle together under the [...]

CUBA (video): Raul Castro Speech to the Non-Aligned Movement

Cuba is currently the president of the Non-Aligned Movement which is holding a ministerial meeting in Havana this week in preparation for a heads of state NAM meeting in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt,  July 11-16, 2009.  Raul Castro gave an excellent speech at the ministerial meeting.  Since not everyone may be familiar with the NAM [...]

HAITI: The “Black Jacobins” 70 Years Later

If you want to learn about Haiti, The Black Jacobins by CLR James is the best and first book you should read.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yang030208.html 
The Black Jacobins 70 Years Later
by Manuel Yang
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Touissaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. This classic account of the Haitian Revolution [...]