Isaac Saney is a Cuba and Black Studies specialist and historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of the recently published book Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return, which delves into the history of Cuba’s internationalist example, including its role in the destruction of South African apartheid. This is the first of a two-part interview. Professor Saney joins us from Halifax. (Part 2)
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“My advice to the non-communist western left is to exorcise the ghost of anti-communism and to look into the history of communism, as it really existed.”
“Lies about the Russian government are war propaganda and they are meant to get public support for military action against Russia and its allies.”
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.”
