Communist Party of Cuba

Cuba: The Communist Party shows no signs of life

Harold Cardenas Lema — The Cuban Communist Party Central Committee Plenary Session in July offered the party leadership an opportunity to frankly acknowledge the scale of the current crisis. It failed to do so.

Diana Ruiz sits next to her son at their home in Havana on March 27, 2024. Shortages of food and medications, as well as long blackouts, have affected most of Cuba’s population in recent years.

Cuban leader: ‘Everything for the people and with the people’

Ernesto Limia Díaz draws out the challenges Cuban revolutionaries face today as they try to confront the impact of a severe economic crisis.

Cuban Communist Party congress: Talking about the party

By Rafael Hernández.

Conceptualising Cuban socialism

By Helen Yaffe June 19, 2017 — Links In

UPDATED: Controversy sparked by Cuban Communist Party leadership's approach to 7th Party Congress, Raul Castro's Congress report

Obama’s new Cuba policy: McDonald's in Old Havana?

The Cuban revolution and ‘democracy’: the case of Yoani Sanchez

Cuba: The legacy of the October 1962 Missile Crisis

By Ike Nahem

Washington and the Cuban Revolution: Ballad of a never-ending policy -- triumph and reaction

[This is the second in a series of articles by Ike Nahem. The first can be found HERE. For more articles on Cuba, click HERE.]

By Ike Nahem

July 22, 2012 – Links international Journal of Socialist Renewal -- On January 1, 1959, Cuban revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro, swept into power and established a provisional revolutionary government across the length of the island, overthrowing the exceedingly venal military regime of Fulgencio Batista.

The revolutionaries (including such remarkable figures as Juan Almeida, Raul Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, Ernesto Che Guevara, Armando Hart, Celia Sanchez and Haydee Santamaria) marched into Havana, culminating a three-year campaign that combined rural guerrilla war with a vast urban revolutionary underground.

Cuba's coming co-operative economy?