Cuba

Interview with Movimiento Libertario Cubano (Cuban Libertarian Movement)

Ed — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:07:57 +0000

We’re interviewing the Cuban Libertarian Movement (Movimiento Libertario Cubano – MLC), an organization made up of anarchists in exile in different parts of the world. In these days of apparent change, of transition, as the European and North-American media would have it, it’s of interest to know first hand about what’s happening inside the island.

Something smells different in Cuba

MLC-ista — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:00:30 +0000

With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.

Freedom Teaching: Anarchism and Education in Early Republican Cuba, 1898-1925

pingtiao — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:31:05 +0000

Consequently, anarchists saw education as an essential revolutionary tool to raise the consciousness of the popular classes.

This article focuses on two distinct eras of Cuban anarchist education (1898-1912 and 1922-1925) within the context of Cuban education generally and the island’s anarchist movement specifically.

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Operation Northwoods: Justification for US military intervention in Cuba documents

daniel — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:25:45 +0000

[b]Code-named Operation Northwoods, US Navy members were also to be killed as part of a "terror campaign" This plan, which President John F. Kennedy refused to implement, had the written approval of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, and every other member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Guevara, Ernesto "Che", 1928-1967

Steven. — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:46:56 +0000

After his remains were dug up in Boliva and reburied in Cuba a few years ago, public interest in Che was rekindled. The heroic cult that has developed around him took on new life, as hitherto unknown photos of his Bolivian campaign and two new biographies were published.

Castro kicking the bucket?

jason — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:36:01 +0000

There's plenty of news on how crook Castro is. He's gonna go sooner or later and Cuba's either gonna get a 'Communist' appointed heir; or possibly a shake up and capitalism's special brand of 'democracy'. (I hate our terms being used like this). I read on a few posts (in between Che and the dolphin) that anarchist syndicates had a lot to do with the initial Cuban revolution.

Is Latin America really turning left?

libcom — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:00:00 +0000

A new series of social and national polarities in the Western Hemisphere has dominated political life over the past few years. At the beginning of the new millennium the national confrontation was between Cuba and the US/EU, and the social confrontations between the rural/indian and urban/unemployed movements and a continent-wide collection of neo-liberal regimes.

1952-1973: Radical perspectives in the Caribbean

libcom — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:51:56 +0000

None Shall Escape:

Radical perspectives in the Caribbean - Fundi (Caribbean Situationist)

Published in 1988 by

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1933-1993: Cuba - socialist paradise or Castro's fiefdom?

libcom — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:12:23 +0000

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1857-1970s: Cuba - The Anarchists and Liberty - Frank Fernandez

libcom — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:52:14 +0000

It was a precursor to his more detailed 2001 book, Cuban Anarchism: The history of a movement

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