Index to News from Cuba

News and events from Cuba

COMPLETELY scotching rumours of ill-health, Fidel Castro made a more than six hour speech to inaugurate the Fifth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party on October 8th

MORE than a 1,000 women have confirmed their participation at an international women's solidarity meeting set for Havana this spring.

Leaving Cuba after his five day visit to Cuba on Sunday January 25th, the Pope told Cubans that the United States blockade was "unjust and unacceptable." The words, spoken as his parting message before he boarded his plane at Jose Martí airport were his strongest condemnation yet of the blockade and were applauded by Fidel Castro.

CUBA mourned the death in December of Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, aged 84, former Political Bureau member of the pre-revolutionary Cuban Communist Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba who was responsible for negotiating the island's integration into COMECON during the 1970s.

THE leaders of the Cuban Revolution, from Fidel down, are going through a kind of drama with their offsprings. It is a quiet drama of a kind that seldom comes to the surface.

TO listen to the media you would believe that Cuba was a dictatorship. Under Fidel Castro, so the story goes, no democracy is allowed, workers are physically forced to work and not allowed to express their opinions. The people, of course, need the US to come to their country to 'democratise' it, bring ' freedom' and 'independent' trade unions. As part of my visit I met hundreds of workers, spoke with union officials and visited numerous schools, hospitals, factories and research centres. I found that nothing could be further from the truth.

CUBA'S 169 municipalities renewed their local governments with the swearing in of elected delegates following election in November.

Contrary to predictions by enemies of the Cuban Revolution, membership in the Cuban Communist Party has grown

Participative Democracy

CSC member Mike Walker has been living in Cuba for two years. Here, he writes a first-hand account of his experience of Cuba's unique democracy.

COMPLETELY scotching rumours of ill-health, Fidel Castro made a more than six hour speech to inaugurate the Fifth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party on October 8th		MORE than a 1,000 women have confirmed their participation at an international women's solidarity meeting set for Havana this spring.
Leaving Cuba after his five day visit to Cuba on Sunday January 25th, the Pope told Cubans that the United States blockade was "unjust and unacceptable." The words, spoken as his parting message before he boarded his plane at Jose Martí airport were his strongest condemnation yet of the blockade and were applauded by Fidel Castro.
CUBA mourned the death in December of Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, aged 84, former Political Bureau member of the pre-revolutionary Cuban Communist Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba who was responsible for negotiating the island's integration into COMECON during the 1970s.		THE leaders of the Cuban Revolution, from Fidel down, are going through a kind of drama with their offsprings. It is a quiet drama of a kind that seldom comes to the surface.
TO listen to the media you would believe that Cuba was a dictatorship. Under Fidel Castro, so the story goes, no democracy is allowed, workers are physically forced to work and not allowed to express their opinions. The people, of course, need the US to come to their country to 'democratise' it, bring ' freedom' and 'independent' trade unions. As part of my visit I met hundreds of workers, spoke with union officials and visited numerous schools, hospitals, factories and research centres. I found that nothing could be further from the truth.
CUBA'S 169 municipalities renewed their local governments with the swearing in of elected delegates following election in November.	Contrary to predictions by enemies of the Cuban Revolution, membership in the Cuban Communist Party has grown	Participative Democracy CSC member Mike Walker has been living in Cuba for two years. Here, he writes a first-hand account of his experience of Cuba's unique democracy.