The Guardian • Cuba
Success of Cuba’s fight against Coronavirus
On the 1st of January, 2021, Cuban revolution completed 62 years.
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Issue #1957
Gilda Chacón
“The physical disappearance of our dear colleague Gilda Chacón Bravo constitutes a sensitive loss for the Cuban and International Trade Union Movement.”
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Issue #2104
Solidarity in an unequal world
The following is a speech given by Cuban Ambassador of Ireland, Bernardo Guanche Henandez, at this year’s James Connolly Commemoration at Arbour Hill in Dublin:...
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Issue #2179
Cuba: resilience, not surrender
Claims by officials in Washington that “Cuba’s collapse is imminent” usually coincide with a tightening of the blockade. Yet, once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their...
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Issue #2180
‘Hands off Cuba!’
LEFT IN EUROPE MOBILISES Hundreds of people have joined solidarity actions for Cuba in Brussels protesting the blockade imposed by the United States on the...
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Issue #2186
China and Cuba’s solar revolution: solidarity in practice
When the lights go out in Havana – as they have done for up to 20 hours a day in the worst months of Cuba’s...
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Issue #2196
Trump’s siege of Cuba ‘harming the whole world’
The US fuel blockade on Cuba is increasing the risk of the next global pandemic, experts, and campaigners have warned. World-class vaccine research that produced...
Read moreRaúl Castro passes baton to next generation
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro retired from his last major public office this weekend ...
Read moreNo crime lasts a hundred years
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Read moreXi to walk together with Cuba to build socialism, be exemplars of coordination
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China is willing to walk together with Cuba in building socialism and be good partners in pursuing common development, in a phone conversation with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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Issue #2191
Blackouts and shortages disrupt healthcare across Cuba
Shortages of electricity, fuel, medicine and medical supplies are severely disrupting emergency care, blood banks, laboratories, immunisation programs, and maternal and child health services, Edem...
Read moreEye-witness account of US attempts to destabilise Cuba
Approximately two weeks after Father’s Day, the COVID-19 Delta variant began to take hold, particularly in the province of Matanzas.
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Issue #1978
Don’t believe all that you hear — here’s what’s really going on in Cuba
The emails kept coming in … from farmers and students and chefs and academics whom I’d taken to that tiny island country over the past two decades to learn about her leadership in sustainable agriculture, cooperatives, and growing food in cities
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Issue #2003
With inexhaustible patriotic love and creative impulse
We do not say it, history does: when the Cuban people, making use of their will and their fortitude, undertake a goal, they do not...
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Issue #2032
22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
“Solidarity with Cuba and all the struggling peoples. United, we are stronger in the anti-imperialist struggle, together with social and popular movements, in the face...
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Issue #2190
Washington bullies Canadian company out of Cuba
Citing financial and operational pressures from the escalating US economic war against Cuba, Canadian mining company Sherritt International has announced it is suspending its operations...
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Issue #2194
Venezuela healthcare in dire straits without Cuba
Venezuela’s public healthcare system is facing mounting pressure as Cuban medical personnel continue to leave the country, raising concerns about the future of a healthcare...
Read moreA star on the chests of 13 tireless Cubans
The honorary title of Hero of Labor of the Republic of Cuba and other decorations were placed on the chests of men and women who have devoted their lives to the homeland.
Read moreThe US’ unilateral coercive policies and the truth about Venezuela
Washington’s aggression against Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and other countries is a flagrant violation of human rights.
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Issue #1980
Ramifications of the US blockade on Cuba – international socialism
From its inception in 1962, the embargo against Cuba has remained the most comprehensive US economic sanctions regime against any country in the world.
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Issue #2031
22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties met in Havana
The 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP) met in Havana on 27th-29th October 2022 hosted by the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC)....
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Issue #2032
Plan of Action of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
The 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) held on October 27-29, 2022 in Havana, Cuba defined the following main guidelines and actions...
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Issue #2083
GLOBAL BRIEFS
RUSSIA: Russia’s top election authority has declared Nikolay Kharitonov eligible to run for president in March elections. He will be representing the Communist Party of...
Read moreCuba is not alone
The Communist Party of Australia recently sent a diplomatic delegation to Canberra.
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Issue #1974
Commemoration of Moncada Barracks for Cuba held in Brisbane
On the 26th of July, the Brisbane Branch of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society held a public commemoration of the 68th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack.
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Issue #1998
Resolutions of the 14th Congress of the CPA
RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE The war between Russia and Ukraine is part of a wider conflict between capitalist powers, between Russia on one...
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Issue #2016
Remembering 26th July 1953 in 2022 – the spark of the Cuban Revolution continues
26th July 1953, Fidel Castro Ruz, a sharp and upcoming lawyer led an attack of 150 on the Moncada Army Barracks in the eastern Cuban...
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Issue #2022
Cuba’s day of liberation celebrated in Sydney
On 26th July 26 1959 an armed force led by Fidel Castro stormed the Moncada Barracks in Cuba, leading to the liberation of the Cuban...
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Issue #2032
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years
Sixty years ago during the Cold War the world came close to a nuclear war between the two superpowers of the day, the Soviet Union...
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Issue #2181
Cuba repels attack, showcases weapons
Cuba’s deputy foreign minister has said that the island’s government is communicating with officials from the US following the fatal shooting of four armed assailants...
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Issue #2183
China helps Cuba achieve 900 MW per day solar power generation
The Trump administration’s energy siege on Cuba – cutting off oil from Venezuela, threatening punitive tariffs on any country that dares sell fuel to the...
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Issue #2183
HALF THE SKY
Cuba is a famously musical country. Cuban women have long protested against US imperialism through their music, intertwining anti-colonial sentiment, national sovereignty and feminist critique....
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Issue #1964
Bridges of love global campaign
On Sunday the 30th of May, activists in Perth joined the global campaign Bridges of Love.
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Issue #2031
Comrade Irving’s contribution to the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
The following is a speech delivered by Communist Party of Australia General Secretary Andrew Irving at the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties....
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Issue #2035
Contributions to IMCWP 2022
Editor’s note: The following are contributions from the Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) to the International Meeting...
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Issue #2080
No reason to keep Cuba on terrorism list
Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, affirmed that there is no valid and reasonable argument for...
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Issue #2175
Chavismo survives US attacks on Venezuela
On 3 January the US military attacked Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. More than 100 Venezuelans...
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Issue #2197
Cuba’s reforms deserve support
Cuba has recently adopted reforms to its economy in response to the tightening blockade inflicted by the United States empire. The content of these reforms...
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Issue #2033
Cuba wins for the 30th consecutive time at the UN General Assembly
Activists around the world celebrated Cuba’s win at the UN General Assembly as 185 countries voted in favour of Cuba’s draft resolution to end the...
Read moreMANDELA IN CUBA
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he asked me to write his speeches.
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Issue #2034
The Belize-Guatemala conflict and the role of Cuba
In September 2022 the Belize Defence Force and Coast Guard encountered five maritime vessels belonging to the Guatemalan Armed Forces, near Sarstoon Island in the...
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Issue #2046
Call to end Cuban embargo: 63 years of suffering
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2102
GLOBAL BRIEFS
Peru: According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the ‘Special Team of Prosecutors’ for cases involving victims during anti-government protests has launched 62 investigations into officials...
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Issue #2178
CPA stands in solidarity with socialist Cuba!
The Central Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent attacks by the Trump regime on Cuba, calling a so-called “national emergency” to designate...
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Issue #2197
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BURKINA FASO: Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, its former colonial ruler, citing violations of sovereignty, foreign interference, and worsening bilateral relations....
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Issue #2022
Urgent aid for Cuba
A combined celebration of the Cuban Revolution and Fidel’s birth, ninety-six years ago, after the horrific events of 5th August virtually became a plea for...
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Issue #2027
The ideology of a rogue state: a “rules-based international order”
In the last few years, those of us in Western capitalist countries have heard more and more of a so-called “rules-based international order.” To the...
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Issue #2038
End the blockade!
1st January marked the 64th anniversary of Cuba’s national liberation. On New Year’s Day, 1959, the brutal US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country after...
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Issue #2052
CUBA: More than 10 million people became literate thanks to the Cuban program “Yes, I can.” The program was Fidel Castro’s initiative that helped to...
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Issue #2129
GLOBAL BRIEFS
VENEZUELA: The International Anti-fascist World Festival took place in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The 2,000 delegates from 125 countries called for consolidation of international...
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Issue #2135
Cuba denounces USAID
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has had funds frozen and is controversially being investigated for corruption. Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez,...
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Issue #2175
67th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution– °Viva la Revolución!
Cuba celebrated its 67th anniversary on 1 January this year. The CPA congratulates the Cuban people and its government, led by the Communist Party of...
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Issue #2192
US Congress members say ‘no’ to pointless cruelty
30 US Congress members have written to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin urging the administration...
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Issue #2198
BRICS and Cuba
Cuba is now an associate member of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), alongside twelve nations, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United...
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Issue #2200
US State Department gets Cuba wrong
The US State Department’s Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, falsely presents Cuba as the principal ideological and organisational centre of communist and anti-American...
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Issue #2025
Diversity – sustainability – socialism
Cuba is one of the world’s most sustainable economies despite the six decades’ long illegal and economically crippling US blockade. Since the 1960s, the Cuban...
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Issue #2078
GLOBAL BRIEFS
New York: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly approved a resolution to end the US economic blockade of Cuba imposed in 1962. This year...
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Issue #2107
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PORTUGAL: Andre Ventura, leader of the far-right party Chega, has announced that he will join the Patriots for Europe alliance in the European Parliament. Currently...
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Issue #2147
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA has reaffirmed its commitment to international solidarity on multiple fronts in the face of growing aggression from the US. In a meeting at the...
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Issue #2198
United Nations votes for Cuba
The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of debating US sanctions on Cuba. In a heated session on 7 July, the Assembly...
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Issue #2200
Cuban emigrants return
The US sanctions and the oil blockade on Cuba have forced many to immigrate, but on arriving in a new country they find it is...
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Issue #1947
CPA statement on US inclusion of Cuba on its terror list
On Monday 11th January 2021, just nine days short of the end of President Donald Trump’s mandate, the State Department under Mike Pompeo unilaterally decided to include Cuba on the US list of terror. President Obama had removed Cuba from that list in 2015.
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Issue #2012
South Australia: Cuban solidarity and party building on the agenda
Over the course of the last period, CPA South Australia has been involved in a litany of tasks to strengthen our Party and promote working...
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Issue #2015
Curry with comrades night – a CPA SA tradition
Through a close association with the Port Adelaide United Workers’ Club, the CPA Port Adelaide branch has access to two fine venues for celebrations and...
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Issue #2040
GLOBAL BRIEFS
THE PHILIPPINES: The US and the Philippines announced plans for four more US bases to be established in the Philippines. The agreement was reached during...
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Issue #2044
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticised the inclusion of his country in the US Department of State’s list of “States sponsor of terrorism.” “The US...
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Issue #2046
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HONDURAS: The President of Honduras has announced that the country will seek to establish diplomatic relations with mainland China instead of Taiwan. The Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2094
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: Cuban-American members of the US House of Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fl) and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fl) have proposed new sanctions against Cuba, reaffirming the...
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Issue #2095
GLOBAL BEIEFS
PERSIAN GULF: Countries in the Persian Gulf including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait have reportedly told the United States not to...
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Issue #2097
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa celebrated the 30th anniversary of the end of the racist system known as apartheid on 27 April. It is marked as...
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Issue #2099
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths has welcomed the results of local elections which “landed a red card to the Tories and a warning...
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Issue #2111
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: Russia’s dispatch of warships to Cuba indicates that Russia is offering an alternative to relations with Washington and its leadership, commented retired French Army...
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Issue #2146
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NEPAL: A three-day conference in Nepal, titled “Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity” took place last week. “From the lap of Sagarmatha (Everest),...
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Issue #2181
GLOBAL BRIEFS
LEBANON: Thousands of people are fleeing their homes following relentless bombings by Israel. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that at least 52 people were killed and...
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Issue #2184
The Cuban Miami-Dade Diaspora: money and power
The Cuban-American community in Miami-Dade Florida controls billions of dollars in businesses, real estate, and finance. Since the Cuban Revolution, these exile communities have opposed...
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Issue #2189
International support for Cuba
Since the illegal and brutal US invasion of Venezuela on 3 January this year and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia...
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Issue #2198
Cuba’s bold new step
Reports are flowing in about the latest economic developments in Cuba, after the extraordinary Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee on...
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Issue #2046
A return to Cuba
Since January 1983, dedicated groups of Australian and New Zealand friends of Cuba have made their way to the Caribbean to show their support for...
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Issue #2050
63 years: A call to end the Cuban blockade
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2053
WEASEL WORDS
Working poor This term comes to us from whatever combination of spin doctor and focus group that gets words into Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s mouth....
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Issue #2054
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: Dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested to demand Japan scrap its plans to dump radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean...
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Issue #2092
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UKRAINE / RUSSIA: Ukrainian military deployed over 2,500 servicemen, some 35 tanks and around 40 other armoured vehicles to attack multiple locations along the border with Russia....
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Issue #2128
Cuba and Trump
How do the Cuban people view the re-election of Donald Trump as US President, and what does a second Trump administration mean for US-Cuba relations?...
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Issue #2141
HALF THE SKY
Media makes invisible the role of Cuban women in maintaining the revolution – every day that the media tells lies about Cuba, its teachers and...
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Issue #2147
International Meeting in Solidarity with Cuba, anti-imperialism and against the resurgence of fascism
After celebrating May Day in Revolution Square, international delegates from 269 organisations representing 39 countries gathered to show their support to the Cuban people, the...
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Issue #2152
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Indigenous People’s Coalition (IPC) met in Nashville to discuss opposition to anti-immigrant raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...
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Issue #2162
Guyana Elections – oil wealth and Venezuela’s territorial claims
President Irfaan Ali, the leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), has secured a second term in the Guyana election on 1 September. The PPP...
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Issue #2178
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Foreign Press Association expressed disappointment after Israel’s Supreme court postponed a ruling on a petition seeking free media access to Gaza. Journalists have...
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Issue #2183
Stop the war on Cuba
The Trump regime has undertaken to starve the people of Cuba. The decision to impose an oil blockade and threaten any country who dares to...
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Issue #2184
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: India’s anti-terror agency has arrested seven people for allegedly training and supplying weapons to insurgents in Myanmar. Six Ukrainians and a US citizen were...
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Issue #2201
Cuban ingenuity and resilience are saving the country
The US oil embargo and sanctions have restricted Cuba’s access to finance, trade, and many imported goods, causing high fuel and food prices. Limited access...
Read moreCPA president’s contribution to the CPC and World Political Parties Summit
I thank the Communist Party of China’s International Department for the invitation to participate in this Summit.
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Issue #2068
Let Cuba Live!
1 MILLION SIGNATURES TO TAKE CUBA OFF THE LIST OF STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM. Join the urgent call to take Cuba off the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2094
Women and Class Struggle
Every International Women’s Day, there are discussions about how we empower women, and in almost none of them is the key term that gets us...
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Issue #2098
Socialism through chess: the USSR, Cuba and the politics of Chess
Chess is a game of intellect, discipline, and strategic thinking. It’s is an equaliser in which a peasant, once taught, can play as well as...
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Issue #2099
Cuban healthcare – struggles and victories
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met with Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS...
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Issue #2128
On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
On Cuba is a great introduction to modern Cuba and the problems it currently faces. Having taught Cuban history at university level, I recommend it...
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Issue #2141
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: Thousands of Indigenous people set up camps in Brasilia to defend their ancestral land rights and demand greater respect for Amazonian ecosystems. The ‘Free...
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Issue #2179
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH AFRICA: China and South Africa have signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal. The agreement, expected to be finalised by the end...
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Issue #2190
GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Poland was ready to host US troops withdrawn from Germany in addition to the 10,000 which are already stationed...
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Issue #2196
Che: Part One: The Argentine — the Cuban Revolution (2008)
There have been a number of films about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara such as The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and the deeply terrible Che! (1969), with Egyptian...
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Issue #2203
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH KOREA: South Korea has angered President Trump by refusing to participate in the US-Israeli war against Iran. In response, the US President ordered to...
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Issue #1957
Vale Gilda Chacón-Bravo
It was with great sadness we received the news in Australia of the passing of comrade Gilda Chacón on the 8th April 2021.
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Issue #2010
Sixty years of Australian-Cuban solidarity
On Saturday, 4th June 2022, activists from around Australia gathered at the Cuban Embassy in Canberra to receive commendations from the Cuban Institute for Friendship...
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Issue #2022
Venezuelan film premieres in Perth
On Saturday 13th August 2022 in a joint venture between the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Canberra, the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society and...
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Issue #2046
Saving the Cuban Revolution
DISASTER When the Soviet Union and socialist bloc of Eastern Europe collapsed in 1990-91 the results were catastrophic for Cuba. Overnight GDP fell by 35...
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Issue #2054
In solidarity with Cuba
A recent Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) delegation of seven from around Australia attended the celebration of May Day in Cuba. More than 1200...
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Issue #2090
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PAKISTAN: The Cabinet Committee on Energy has approved the beginning of the construction of an 80 km segment of the 800 km long pipeline from the...
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Issue #2103
Fighting for our lives
A speech from Romina Beitseen of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) to the Eighth International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition...
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Issue #2128
LETTERS
On Cuba Dear Guardian Editor, Thank you for your coverage of Cuba. I went on the Southern Cross Brigade at the end of last year....
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Issue #2132
Kurimakao – solidarity and joy
Kurimakao is a music and performing arts school in Cuba’s Matanzas province. During the ‘special period,’ in 1992, when Cubans faced massive deprivation, Commander of...
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Issue #2133
Opinion: Why all the Cuba?
Cuba is a long way from Australia, just under 17,000 km if you fly in a straight line. Cuba is located in the Caribbean sea,...
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Issue #2165
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: Three US companies – unmanned vehicle maker Saronic Technologies, satellite technology company Aercomm, and subsea engineering firm Oceaneering International, have been added to China’s...
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Issue #2177
The true history of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio is well known for his long history of falsehoods. His political career has been characterised by his lack of ethics, corruption, frequent tendency...
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Issue #2184
The overwhelming force of global solidarity with Cuba
Fifty tons of diverse products arrived from Mexico and Brazil. This was in addition to the aid arriving via the “Our America to Cuba Convoy,”...
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Issue #1970
CPA statement in solidarity with socialist Cuba
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the subversive campaign waged by the US government and Western media against the Cuban Revolution, its government, and people.
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Issue #2091
Cuban Ambassador Tanieris Dieguez La O
AC: Ambassador, the US blockade of Cuba has had devastating effects on the lives of ordinary Cubans. What are some of the struggles Cuban people...
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Issue #2098
Diaz-Canel: friendship, peace, solidarity, and unity
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel made an inspiring speech at the closing ceremony of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and against imperialism, at the...
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Issue #2118
New Sanctions on the DPRK – Australia’s sanctions must stop
On 19 September the US government increased its sanctions on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Russia and Syria. Newly listed is the Korea Kwangson...
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Issue #2140
ACFS Consultation 2025: Solidarity, learning, action, and dance
The 2025 Australia-Cuba Friendship Society Consultation, in Fidels clubhouse in Adelaide, brought together delegates from all over Australia for learning and solidarity. Delegates learned in...
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Issue #2143
New information released on CIA involvement in Cuba
On 18 March, under President Donald Trump’s executive order, 80,000 documents were uploaded to the National Archives website. Amongst these documents are a plethora of...
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Issue #2148
Cuba: An American history
Ada Ferrer’s history of Cuba begins with Columbus and the island’s Spanish colonisation, and ends with Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Ferrer takes a pro-Cuba...
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Issue #2154
GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: Chinese scientists have fully constructed a Submicron-resolution Three-dimensional Atlas of the Mouse Brain (STAM Atlas), a major step forward in neurological research. As an...
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Issue #2165
Cuba remembers Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Chesimard) died in Havana, Cuba on 25 September. Cuba regarded her as a political refugee and a victim of racial...
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Issue #2177
The Sandinista Revolution – A Global Latin American History
Nicaragua has the distinction of having had the last communist revolution of the twentieth century. Many English speakers if they think about Nicaragua at all,...
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Issue #2185
Most people in US oppose oil blockade
A recent poll by analytics firm YouGov has found that more people in the US disapprove than approve of the US blocking oil shipments to...
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Issue #2191
A trio of Cuban films
Teresita’s Dream This May, Teresita’s Dream screened to a packed house at the Havana Film Festival in New York. The film documents the true story...
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Issue #2193
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth discussed key foreign policy issues for Washington at a defence summit in Singapore. Among other things he...
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Issue #2050
DINGO
The governments of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries met to discuss the best ways to jointly counter the inflationary wave sweeping the world which...
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Issue #2106
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: EU documents and reports from The Financial Times and Sputnik suggest that the EU is increasing pressure on Hungary to end its veto of...
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Issue #2122
End the criminal US blockade on Cuba!
Due to the current difficulty in sourcing energy, the Cuban government has been forced to temporarily shut down much of its industry and its services...
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Issue #2140
Solidarity on display in South Australia
Comrades in the South Australian Communist Party Central Branch and the Port Adelaide Branch joined in a meeting with the Party president, Vinnie Molina, Party...
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Issue #2166
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: 73 people who were killed in a terrorist act against a Cuban civilian plane in 1976 were honoured at commemorative events in Havana and...
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Issue #2192
Raúl Castro at 95
On 3 June 2026 Raúl Castro will turn 95 years of age; a birthday politically and symbolically tied to the Cuban Revolution. As Cuba discourages...
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Issue #2196
Vale Commander Ramiro Valdés
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez. Photo: Ricardo López Hevia – oncubanews.com The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) mourns the passing of Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Commander and hero...
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Issue #2126
What Trump’s extremist cabinet tells us
President-elect Donald Trump’s new cabinet will begin on 20 January 2025. His selection tells us a lot about what Trump 2.0 will be and will...
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Issue #2140
Final declaration of the 40th National Consultation of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society
This meeting of participating delegates to the 40th National Consultation of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society meeting in Adelaide, South Australia: Focused on the constant struggle...
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Issue #2192
Cuba’s Independence Day celebrates José Martí
The Cuban government sees independence from Spain on 20 May 1902 as an important historical milestone, introducing Cuba’s ‘neo-colonial republic’ period (1902–1959), a pathway to...
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Issue #2203
ACTION PLAN
The Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP), organised by the Communist Party of Cuba in...
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Issue #2066
Cuba: revolutionary continuity
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) welcomed young Cubans, Marianniz Diaz and Ivan Barreto to Perth on 11th - 14th August 2023. Their visit was the final leg...
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Issue #2203
100 Years of Fidel
Fidel’s centenary arrives as Cuba weathers perhaps the most severe external assault in its history. Trump and Rubio’s fuel blockade has cut Venezuelan oil supplies,...
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Issue #2093
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton The US-Australia Force Posture Agreement (FPA), signed in 2014, provides the legal basis for the comprehensive US militarisation of Australia, especially the north,...
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Issue #2144
May Day in Cuba
May Day in Havana is something special to look forward to as a member of the organised working class, and as a member of a...
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Issue #2154
BRICS: Multipolar reality
BRICS is the heir to the Non-Aligned Movement,” declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the economic alliance’s 17th annual summit, held July...
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Issue #2192
Cuba’s trillion-dollar potential
Years of brutal sanctions have limited Cuba’s exploitation of its huge mineral resource wealth. Potentially it has one of the greatest concentrations of undeveloped natural...
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Issue #2203
Final Declaration of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
‘Defending and honouring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth and consolidating solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening joint actions and...
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Issue #2063
Communist Party of Australia greetings to the heroic people of Cuba on the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks on 26th July 1953
Communist Party of Australia greetings to the heroic people of Cuba on the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks on 26th July...
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Issue #2124
Cuba night at the Semaphore
As the home of progressive music and thought in Adelaide, the Semaphore Workers Club was the ideal venue to highlight Cuban culture and values. The...
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Issue #2178
Venezuela: The cost of challenging an Empire
Hosted by Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly under the coordination of comrade MC and the Canberra Branch of the CPA, we were pleased to have filmmakers...
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Issue #2182
CPA Congress – Special Resolutions
Every Communist Party of Australia Congress discusses and passes a Political Resolution as well as Special Resolutions moved by delegates. The Political Resolution will be...
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Issue #2188
CPA diplomatic visits
The CC International Department of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) held a series of productive diplomatic meetings led by Comrade General Secretary Andrew Irving,...
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Issue #2191
Cuba: the socialist character of our revolution
Excerpts from a speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the...
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Issue #2193
Che Guevara at 98
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born on 14 May 1928 in Rosario, Argentina and died on 9 October 1967 in La Higuera, Bolivia. His nickname ‘Che’...
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Issue #2071
Year 65 of the Cuban Revolution
Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos St 17 No. 301, Vedado Phone: 7838-2413 Email: presidencia@icap.cu Havana, August 25th, 2023 “Year 65 of the Cuban...
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Issue #2088
Life in Cuba Today
After their initial visit to Cuba in 2017, Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) South Australian members Dave and Dominique Lock, paid a further visit to this...
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Issue #2094
No more interference. No more coercion. No more sanctions. End the blockade and let Cuba live!
On the weekend of 6-7 April, friends of Cuba from across Australia convened at the Maritime Union in Sydney for the 39th edition of the...
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Issue #2101
No to Washington’s hypocrisy and misinformation
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms Washington’s latest campaign of hypocrisy and contradictory misinformation. On 15 May 2024 US Secretary...
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Issue #2120
Cuba sanctions: background and update
On 28 May 2024, the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, removing some economic sanctions...
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Issue #2127
Natural disasters, el bloqueo, and Trump 2
From my earliest days as a communist, I have been intrigued by Cuba, a bastion of working-class power and a beacon of hope for proletarians...
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Issue #2198
Revolutions and love
Hannah Middleton, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, once said that “Revolution and love are inextricably intertwined. You can’t have one without...
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Issue #2059
United around the world against the criminal US Blockade on Cuba!
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the inclusion of Cuba in the US list of countries that sponsor terrorism. The...
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Issue #2092
Open letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong
Senator the Hon. Penny Wong Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Re: Urgent call to Act against genocide....
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Issue #2094
Comrade Meyvis Esteves on her election
The Communist Party of Australia congratulates Comrade Meyvis Esteves on her election as First Secretary of Cuba’s Young Communist League, UJC For young communists in...
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Issue #2141
AUKUS, Trump, and the Indo-Pacific – an address by Vijay Prashad
The opportunity to listen to Vijay Prashad is one not to be missed, and in Sydney and on Zoom he wowed comrades and friends once...
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Issue #2185
Australia’s friendship with Cuba
As the Trump administration’s murderous blockade continues, the Communist Party of Australia maintains fraternal connections with the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban government....
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Issue #2197
Cuba for unionists
A very successful screening of the Cuba after Castro documentary by Abby Martin and Matt Belen was held in Boorloo/Perth on Saturday 27 June. The...
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Issue #2064
Cuban resilience to overcome the blockade
Cuban Ambassador, Tanieris Dieguez La O, expressed her gratitude to the Consultation for the continuing Australian solidarity with the Cuban people. At the Australia Cuba...
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Issue #2142
Obituary for Maria Hilario
In late February this year, the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) lost a great campaigner, worker, enthusiast, for women’s rights, and more recently Cuba, Venezuela...
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Issue #2174
2025: From ban to blockade
The year 2025 will be remembered not as the year global capitalism stabilised, but as the year its grand, democratic facades crumbled revealing a desperate,...
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Issue #2180
Southern Cross Brigade 2025-2026
Communist Party of Australia comrades have long been active in support of Cuba, both as members of the Australia Cuba Friendship Society and as members...
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Issue #2187
ACFS report
From 17 to 19 April, Australia-Cuba Friendship Society members from around Australia gathered in Canberra for the annual national Consultation. The event opened up with...
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Issue #2064
Learning from Cuba
Really standing up to the US is something Australia could do, but which the vast majority of our media and both our largest political parties...
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Issue #2076
Condemning the blockade and solidarity with Cuba
As the undersigning delegations, participants of the XXIII International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Izmir, Turkiye, October 2023: We express our strongest condemnation...
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Issue #2109
Welcome to Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society Perth welcomed Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez at a public meeting in Boorloo/Perth with a full house at Trades Hall....
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Issue #2150
Why we hold vigils
Australia-Cuba Solidarity is an alliance of activists and organisations who call on the USA to lift its long-standing sanctions on Cuba and to stop other...
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Issue #2177
The 41st Southern Cross Brigade: success in difficult times
I was pleased to co-lead the 41st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba with Ana Borges and 10 wonderful brigadistas who were wonderful ambassadors for the...
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Issue #2182
Anti-Imperialism protest in Canberra
On 4 March between 50 and 60 people turned up outside the US Embassy in Canberra with flags, banners, and even an anti-AUKUS truck, to...
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Issue #2068
Intergenerational Report – The march of history
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this...
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Issue #2109
INSTITUTO CUBANO DE AMISTAD CON LOS PUEBLOS
July 19th, 2024 MESSAGE FROM ICAP TO MEMBERS OF THE “FROM AUSTRALIA TO CUBA WITH LOVE” SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Dear friends, I would like to extend...
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Issue #2164
Medal of Friendship
The CPA congratulates comrade Elizabeth, CC Assistant General Secretary on receiving the Friendship Medal awarded by the Cuban Council of State at the request of...
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Issue #2073
Terrorist attack on Cuban embassy: statement in solidarity
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the latest terrorist attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC. The attack on...
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Issue #2135
New in the Australian Marxist Review
The Australian Marxist Review is the Communist Party of Australia’s theoretical, and long-form journal. If you haven’t read the AMR yet, check it out on...
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Issue #2189
DINGO
The United Workers Union says the announcement that G8 Education will close approximately 40 childcare centres across Australia is deeply concerning for workers, families and...
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Issue #2200
Australia Cuba Friendship Society updates
South Australia The South Australian branch of the ACFS launched its ‘from Australia to Cuba with Love’ campaign on the 4 July. On 10 July,...
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Issue #2202
Cuban solidarity in Adelaide
Australia-Cuba-Friendship Society members in Adelaide are determined to support the Cuban people in their stand against the world’s mightiest war machine. ACSF recently held a...
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Issue #2093
Melbourne Comrades rally for Palestine and Cuba
Melbourne Communist Party of Australia members are a regular fixture at the now-weekly rallies in support of Palestine and against the ongoing genocide there, proudly...
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Issue #2104
Remove Cuba from the US list of countries sponsors of terrorism
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, WA branch rallied outside the US consulate on Monday 17 June 2024. It has been demanding the end of the criminal...
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Issue #2128
For a 2025 without genocide
People around the world live in horror as witnesses to ongoing genocide in Gaza for the past 14 long months. Zionism has exposed to the...
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Issue #2135
EDITORIAL
The so-called “Western countries” are not, and never have been, the advanced guard of progressive society. There are certainly hard won gains, small advances made...
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Issue #2156
Moncada forever!
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, ACFS Perth celebrated the Spark of the Cuban revolution on Saturday 26 July. The event was a full house, a mix...
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Issue #2090
Palestine and Cuba
Cuban Ambassador HE Tanieris Dieguez with Andrew Irving. A CPA delegation was warmly received by Cuban Ambassador HE Tanieris Dieguez. Palestinian Ambassador HE...
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Issue #2128
EDITORIAL
It’s easy to be despondent about 2025, as we go into the holiday season. Trump will be US president next year. It’s quite possible Australia...
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Issue #2147
Canberra hits the dance floor for Cuba
The Canberra ACFS (Australia-Cuba Friendship Society) staged a Peña (musical get-together) on Saturday 24 May. It was a fun evening that really took off. Festivities...
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Issue #2169
EDITORIAL
Australia mostly doesn’t get sanctioned. There’s a few politicians who can’t get visas to go to Israel, but that doesn’t affect the rest of us....
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Issue #2174
For a new year of justice
2025 is leaving us with an enormous toll the peoples of the world are feeling as a result of genocide and the Zionist attacks on...
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Issue #2113
EDITORIAL
A backyard is a private place. Your backyard is yours and not anybody else’s. How about your country’s backyard? For more than a century, the...
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Issue #2128
2024: The people, united …
As the year draws to a close, 2024 can be considered as a period of growing struggle world-wide against the voracious dominance of capital, grappling...
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Issue #2165
Vale Beryl Miller
The Guardian is sorry to report the passing of one of the Party’s longest serving members, Beryl Miller, who has died aged 99 in South...
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Issue #2180
An act of war
Activists in Sydney (see photo) and Perth have picketed US consulates in both cities. Protesters condemned Trump’s most recent moves against the people of Cuba...
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Issue #2184
EDITORIAL
There’s a lot of Cuba in this issue of Guardian the Workers’ Weekly. There’s a front page article Hands off Cuba! about the current attempt...
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Issue #2203
Statement from the Communist Party of Australia delegation
Theme: ‘Defending and honouring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth; deepening solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening our joint actions;...
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Issue #2119
Bridges of Love – Perth
Australia Cuba Friendship Society Perth participated in the international campaign Bridges of Love on Sunday 29th September 2024 at Elizabeth Quay, Perth, Western Australia, with...
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Issue #2150
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump is always in the news. There are a lot of reasons to think he’s an especially horrible person. He’s very corrupt...
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Issue #2174
EDITORIAL
This last issue of Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for 2025 comes to you on the edge of the ‘silly season,’ a time when everyone is...
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Issue #2181
Communist Party of Cuba
Havana, 26 February, 2026 Vinnie Molina President Communist Party of Australia (CPA) Comrade Vinnie: On behalf of the Communist Party of Cuba, I extend special...
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Issue #2184
Hands off Cuba!
Almost unnoticed in the Australian media, a war crime is taking place. A nation of ten million people is being literally starved by a superpower...
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Issue #2132
Cuban way to socialism!
A recent visit to Cuba with the 40th Southern Cross solidarity brigade was an eye-opener for the group of Australians and New Zealanders. The brigade...
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Issue #2188
We defend Cuba against the imperialist siege! We defend the Revolution
We strongly condemn the growing multidimensional aggression of the United States against Cuba, which has been implemented since January 1, 1959. At this stage, what...
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Issue #2192
We stand in solidarity with Raúl Castro
The US indictment of Raúl Castro on 20 May is yet another desperate attempt to attack the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Based on false...
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Issue #2137
Maria Hilario
The Guardian was saddened to hear of the passing of Maria Hilario, a staunch member of the Communist Party of Australia, and a good friend...
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