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"Only international cooperation and solidarity will save humanity"
The Cuban statement to the Extraordinary Teleconference of the International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties. The...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20214 min read


Xiomara Castro wins in Honduras: Red Review #34 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-fourth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Honduras, Australia, Laos, the US,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 202111 min read


Daily LIFT #428
Castro and Allende at a rally during Castro's visit to Chile, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #428
Michael Laxer
Apr 7, 20211 min read


Global Cuban solidarity actions against the blockade March 27 - 28
This weekend the global solidarity campaign against the decades old illegal US economic blockade of Cuba is holding events and rallies in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20211 min read


Che in the People's Republic of China, 1960
In the fall of 1960 the great revolutionary leader Che Guevara went on a diplomatic mission that saw him visit a number of socialist...
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20212 min read


A better world is possible: Cuba's powerful statement to the UN Human Rights Council
"Inequalities, hunger and discrimination are growing exponentially, in a world already burdened by an unjust and undemocratic...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #399
Che and Yuri Gagarin share a laugh -- Daily LIFT #399 Wonderful photo of Che and Gagarin. It is not dated but is likely from 1964 in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #398
Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos prepare for a charity baseball game in Cuba, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #398 Their team was named the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20211 min read


Conrado Benítez, Cuban revolutionary hero, b. February 19, 1942
Conrado Benítez, heroic Cuban Literacy Teacher and Cuban Revolutionary born February 19, 1942. 18 year old Conrado Benítez was murdered...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20211 min read


50 workers' parties issue statement calling for greater public health measures, ending sanctions
As the global pandemic enters its second year 50 Communist and workers' parties have issued a joint statement calling for the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #392
Fidel Castro speaks in Colon, Cuba shortly after the triumph of the revolution, January 1959 -- Daily LIFT #392 On February 16, 1959...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #388
Internationalism, Cuban Political Cartoon, 1989 -- Daily LIFT #388 A reminder that internationalism is the wrecking ball of colonialism...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20211 min read


Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban Revolutionary, Born February 6, 1932
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban Revolutionary, Born February 6, 1932 Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the principle revolutionary leaders who, along...
Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20211 min read


Second Declaration of Havana, February 4 1962
Fidel Castro delivers the Second Declaration of Havana -- one of the most important anti-imperialist documents of the modern world --...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #375
Castro speaks to a crowd in Camaguey, Cuba just after the triumph of the revolution, January 1959 -- Daily LIFT #375
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20211 min read


Trump's final attack prompts international solidarity with Cuba
In the wake of the outrageous decision by the outgoing Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to, in their final days in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20214 min read


Daily LIFT #371
For a Vietnam Ten Times More Beautiful, Cuban poster c.1968 -- Daily LIFT #371
Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #365
Fidel Castro enters Havana greeted by huge, jubilant crowds, January 8, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #365 On January 8 1959, Fidel Castro entered...
Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #363
Stamp celebrating Soviet aid to the Cuban Revolution, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #363
Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20211 min read


Remembering Conrado Benítez, Cuban Literacy Teacher and Revolutionary
Conrado Benítez, Cuban Literacy Teacher and Revolutionary Killed by Imperialist Backed Counter-Revolutionaries, January 5, 1961 On...
Michael Laxer
Jan 5, 20211 min read
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