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Don Fitz
Life Expectancy: The US and Cuba in the Time of Covid
21 Sep 2022
The profitmaking health care system in the U.S. does not correlate with good outcomes. Socialist Cuba struggles under U.S. sanctions, yet it now outperforms the U.S. in life expectancy.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 9, 2022
09 Sep 2022
Racism and political corruption in Mississippi, how U.S. sanctions impact Black Cubans and the entire country, and the first of a two part discussion on Black politics in San Francisco.
Vijay Prashad, Manolo De Los Santos
How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor
13 Jul 2022
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance For Peace Denounces Biden Regime’s New Sanctions on Cuba and Stands with the Cuban People
13 Jul 2022
Black Alliance for Peace condemns U.S. sanctions on Cuba and supports self-determination and sovereignty for that nation.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
08 Jul 2022
U.S. involvement in Cuban protests on July 11, 2021, Black community in Atlantic City, NJ fights for justice, and Democrats' political pressure and voter intimidation remove Green Party from North…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
U.S. Interference in Cuba on July 11, 2021
08 Jul 2022
The U.S. played a role in orchestrating what were described as anti-government protests in Cuba on July 11, 2021. Isaac Saney is a history professor and Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University in…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: On the Pan-American Congress, José Martí, 1889
15 Jun 2022
José Martí’s account of the 1889 Pan-American Congress offers lessons for last week’s failed Summit of the Americas.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For the Peoples of our Region, the Failure of Biden’s Summit of the Americas Would be a Welcome Event
08 Jun 2022
The Summit of the Americas is not the property of the host nation. The U.S. has no right to exclude, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, but has done so in disregard of their sovereignty. The U.S. is not…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: The Decline of the United States Empire, James Boggs, 1963
08 Jun 2022
James Boggs was a Detroit auto worker, activist, and author. Nearly 60 years ago he analyzed revolutionary movements in the Americas and described their role in hastening the U.S. empire's decline.
Jacqueline Luqman
Revolutionary Cuba Delivers Marching Orders To The US Left To Defeat Imperialism For All Humanity - Are We Listening?
24 May 2022
The author reports on her experiences with the May Day International Brigade in Cuba.