Some excellent articles on Dayschool themes…

 

50 years of Cuban revolution

 

Cuba at 2008 UN General Assembly: 'The very existence of the human species is at risk'

Speech by José Ramón Machado Ventura, Vice-President of Cuba to the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, September 24, 2008.

Cutback, restructuring of sugar industry

Two articles, co-written in 2004 by workshop speaker Jonathan Silberman, shows how Cuba’s economy is run by, for and in the interests of Cuban workers.

Cuba and “the war on terror”

Anthology of short Cuban articles/excerpts from speeches on Washington’s “war on terror”

Articles on Cuba missile crisis

Articles on 40th anniversary of crisis; excerpts from October 1962: The "Missile" Crisis as Seen from Cuba, by Tomás Diez Acosta; Speeches by Fidel Castro

Internationalism in practice: Cuban doctors in the mountains of Pakistan

Report on Cuba's medical mission to Kashmir to aid victims of the 2005 earthquake, from 'Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism'

Fidel Castro on Sectarianism

Excerpt from 1985 speech

ALBA nations: challenges and achievements

Clinics staffed by Cuban doctors popular throughout Venezuela

Report on the population-wide primary health-care programme provided by 17,000 Cuban doctors, from Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism190 April/May 2006

Draft Program and Principles of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
by Presidential Commission to Organize the PSUV January 23rd 2008

From Marx to Morales: Indigenous Socialism and the Latin Americanization of Marxism

By John Riddell, an investigation into the historical continuity between today's revolutionary movements in Latin America and the early years of the communist movement.

Articles on Ecuador (English) / Articulos sobre Ecuador (Español)

by Diego Almeida, workshop speaker

Bolivia: Unprecedented Alliance Defeats Right-Wing Assault

from Socialist Voice (Canada)

Reporting Now from the Front Line - Steve Wagstaff in Bolivia

Eye-witness report from Sheffield Cuba Solidarity Campaign activist currently living in Bolivia

 

 Other

Colombia - striking cane-cutters, indigenous people face brutal repression

By Andy Higginbottom, workshop speaker, from Morning Star, Wednesday October 22 2008.

How Europe Too Underdevelops Latin America and the Caribbean

By Andy Higginbottom, workshop speaker, on the prominent role of Europe's multinationals in Latin America's resource extraction, banking, privatised utilities and other sectors

 

Gilda Chacon Bravo on Women's Hour


Free Radicals

 

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