Cuba

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 […]
Angola MPLA founding President Agostino Neto
International News

Former Angolan President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Dead at 79

July 19, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the most important heads-of-state in the struggle to end Portuguese domination in Africa died in a Spanish hospital on July 8. Jose Eduardo dos Santos served as president of the […]
Domestic News

Beyond Abortion – A Struggle to Win Our Future

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Cheryl LaBash Havana, Cuba — When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock, says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. […]
Peoples Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
International News

Summit of the Americas Reaffirms Decline of U.S. Influence

June 20, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A failed Summit of the Americas convened by the United States administration of President Joe Biden further revealed the waning geopolitical authority of Washington and Wall Street. This event held between June […]
International News

Global Afrikan Congress on the Summit of the Americas

May 28, 2022 fwstaff
By Global Afrikan Congress As members of the Global Afrikan Congress or GAC, we were immensely proud of the initial stance of CARICOM governments, that they would have boycotted the Summit of the Americas if […]
China President Xi Jinping meets with Fidel Castro
International News

Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America

March 12, 2022 fwstaff
 By Carlos Martinez The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious […]
Cuba and China, both targets of U.S. imperialism, strengthen ties
International News

Biden fails to isolate Cuba

August 24, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry With U.S. officials and their Afghan collaborators engaged in a mad scramble to escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, now is the time to note another huge international failure by the Biden Administration: i.e., […]