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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“Oppressed communities have to articulate their own independent foreign policy grounded above all in the interests of other marginalized groups.”
The ruling class is sending us a message,“You’re either with us or against us.”
“Local governments offer subsidies, miss out on tax revenue, starve their citizens of vital social services, and fatten the profits of these modern-day robber
“Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.”
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.”
