- The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
- Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
The Politics of Isolation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
- The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
- The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
- C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
- Canadian Foreign Policy and the Coming Elections in FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Featuring the impact of minority government on Canadian foreign policy, Haitian democracy, U.S.multilateralism in the Americas, Colombia-UNASUR relations, Cuban bloggers, and boosting Canada's relationship with Mexico. FOCALPoint is available online.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalism, Socialism and Technology
A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica
Resource Type: Book
Does a socialist Third World country tackle technological development and mechanization in different ways from a capitalist country? In this meticulous field study of sugar cane harvesting in two leading producer countries - Cuba and Jamaica - Dr. Edquist finds that the causes and consequences of technical change differ significantly. He advances original ideas as to the relationship between technology and socio-economic conditions.
- Caribbean Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
Organizations and experts on Caribbean topics.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Cuba
Anatomy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Cuba 1959 to 1980s
The Unforgivable Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
- Cuba in a Time of Transition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- Cuba Makes Me Hurt
Against The Current vol. 105
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
The jail sentences and executions in Cuba are very good news for the global superpower, which has been going crazy trying to cough up that bone stuck in its throat. But they are very bad news, sad and painful news, for those of us who think that the courage shown by this tiny country, so capable of greatness, is admirable, but who also think that justice and freedom march hand in hand or not at all.
- Cuban Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
- Cuban Revolution - History
Resource Type: Article
Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
- Cuban Women Now: Afterward 1974
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
I am writing this afterword because I feel that in the past three years fundamental changes have taken place in Cuban society,changes concerning women's role and men's, and women's attitudes towards those roles.
- Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
- Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
- Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana province) on 18 April.
- The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Salim Lamrani explains the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
- Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Vol. 8: 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
- In a Time of Torment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
- Jose Marti
Architect of the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
This book looks at Marti as both thinker and man of action in relation to his own country (Cuba), Latin America as a whole, and the United States. Turton presents Marti as a contradictory man, avoiding the hagiographical tendencies of many biographers. An original and readable portrait of this great patriot of the Americas and forerunner of the Cuban Revolution.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2019
Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
- Martí, José
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
- A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
- Moncada Barracks
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Moncada Barracks was a military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. On July 26, 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- On Power and Ideology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
- OXFAM Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The Press and the Cold War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Revolutionary Nonviolence
Essays by Dave Dellinger
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
- Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
Torchbook Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
- Seeds of Fire - January 1
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Socialism in Cuba
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- SWP History: 1960-1988
Resource Type: Website
A website devoted to reviews and discussions related to Barry sheppart's two-volume history of the American Socialists Workers' Party (SWP).
- A Tale of Two Islands
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
- The April edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas is out
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico ranging from disability to multilateralism, from gang violence to political dissidence.
- There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- WWF -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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