Cuba

World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Domestic News

Trump Administration Suspends Funding to WHO amid Global Pandemic

April 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After a series of verbal attacks against the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the United States administration of President Donald Trump has announced that funding […]
Dr. Tedros Adhanom, WHO Director General meets with Chinese President Xi Jinpinge
International News

As COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the nation, U.S. blames China

April 15, 2020 fwstaff
By Mike Shane The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to kill 100,000 to 250,000 people or more in the U.S. As it sweeps across the country, exposing stark inequalities in many areas of social life, the deficiencies […]
World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Domestic News

Trump Administration Attacks on the WHO Highlights Imperialist Policy on COVID-19 Pandemic

April 12, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe United States President Donald Trump has launched a verbal attack against the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director General Dr. Tedros Ahhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO is an international agency affiliated with […]
Cuban doctor goes door-to-door in Havana on March 31 looking for possible cases of coronavirus
International News

Cuba Helps World Fight Covid-19

April 7, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole Countries around the world, hard hit by the Covid-19 virus, are turning to socialist Cuba for medical assistance. These include Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Suriname and Jamaica among others. Cuba has a long […]
The interferon project began in 1981, after Fidel met U.S. doctor Randolph Lee Clark. Photo-Granma Archives
International News

The history of interferon in Cuba, in use today to treat Covid-19

March 29, 2020 fwstaff
Note: Interferon Alpha 2B is used to treat various cancers (e.g., leukemia, melanoma, AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma). It is also used to treat virus infections (e.g., chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C, condylomata acuminata). This medication […]
Solidarity with Cuba
International News

Final declaration of Cuba solidarity conference

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Anti-imperialist Solidarity Meeting for Democracy and against Neoliberalism From this Cuba with such solidarity, the first free territory in the Americas, recognizing the heroic resistance of its people and the victories attained over sixty […]
Anti-imperialist Solidarity Meeting for Democracy and against Neoliberalism
International News

DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Anti-imperialist Solidarity Meeting for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, Nov. 1-3, 2019 The Government of the United States has continued its hostility against Cuba, with increased aggressiveness in recent months. The tightening of the blockade, […]
Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, took place in Havana, Nov. 1-3
International News

Cuban Anti-Imperialist Solidarity

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Jerry Goldberg The Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Encounter, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, that took place in Havana, Cuba from November 1-3, 2019, was a historic event in advancing the struggle against U.S. imperialism. The conference […]
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at UN on Sept 28 2019
International News

Threats and coercion will not extract a single concession from Cuba

October 4, 2019 fwstaff
 Speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, during the general debate of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 28, 2019. Reprinted from Granma (Council of State […]
Domestic News

Cuba Caravan visits Detroit on Juneteenth Day

July 11, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Note: These following remarks were made by Abayomi Azikiwe at a public meeting held at the Cass Commons in Midtown Detroit on June 19 to celebrate the annual Cuba Caravan which arrived […]