Cuba

Cuba solidarity reception for correspondent
Domestic News

Detroit Reception Held for Cuban Photo Exhibit on the 65th Anniversary of Prensa Latina

November 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Friday, November 15, 2024, Washington, D.C. correspondent for Prensa Latina, Deisy Francis Mexidor, who writes for the Cuban news agency which is celebrating its 65th anniversary, was the special guest for […]
Zimbabwe anti-sanctions campaigners
International News

African Union and Cuba Demand End to Western Sanctions on Zimbabwe

November 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe For nearly a quarter-century, the people of Zimbabwe have been subjected to draconian sanctions enacted by the leading imperialist states. These punitive policies began as a response to the passage of legislation […]
Domestic News

Debbie Johnson, ¡Presente!

June 17, 2024 fwstaff
UPDATE – LOCATION and TIME change: The celebration of the life of Debbie Johnson will take place on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 10am at the North Rosedale Park Community House, 18445 Scarsdale St., Detroit, […]
G77 plus China Summit delegates
International News

G77+China Holds Summit in Cuba Calling for a Different World Order

September 24, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A meeting of the Group of 77 and China took place on September 15-16 in the Republic of Cuba where frustrations with the existing world system were articulated by the participants. A […]
SACP Chris Matlhako
International News

Chris Matlhako Exemplified the Legacy of National Liberation and Internationalism

May 19, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Note: These comments were delivered to a memorial webinar on the life, times and contributions of Chris Matlhako, a Central Committee member and 2nd Deputy Secretary General of the South African Communist […]
NNOC delegation
International News

NNOC brigadistas detained and harassed

May 16, 2023 fwstaff
By National Network on Cuba Several of our May Day brigadistas were detained, harassed, threatened with jail time & had electronics taken by the U.S. Customs/Border Patrol on return from Cuba today. In face of […]
San Francisco celebrates in the street the vote in the UN for Cuba. photo Bill Hackwell
International News

The World Stands with Cuba Once Again!

November 13, 2022 fwstaff
By Alejandra Garcia in Havana Once again, the United States has been left alone in its efforts to stifle Cuba. The General Assembly of the United Nations once again pronounced itself overwhelmingly against the economic […]
Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla
International News

The Blockade is an Act of Economic War in Peacetime

September 24, 2022 fwstaff
By Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Delegates: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, as never before, the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order. Humanity never had this formidable scientific-technical potential, nor […]
Nehanda Abiodun 1950-2019
Domestic News

Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex – Black August Series #4

August 28, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the early 1980s, the prison population in the United States has grown exponentially with African Americans, Latin Americans and other working class people making up the majority of those incarcerated in […]
Assata Shakur
Domestic News

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution – Black August Series #3

August 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As far back in history as the period of enslavement of African people in North America, resistance and rebellion has been met with retaliatory repression from the ruling interests. Freedom fighters such […]