Subjects Archives: Revolutions

Oman’s lesser-known communist separatist guerrilla. Today in 1965, Dhofar’s independence movement took up armed struggle.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The revolutionary legacy of Fidel Castro, who would have turned 100 this week, reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity.

Editor’s note: for the next 2 weeks Resumen Latinoamericano in English will be reporting from Havana, facing the same obstacles of connectivity and power outages, sponsored by the U.S. blockade, that the Cuban media faces on a daily basis.

On July 28, Venezuelans commemorate the birth of the Bolivarian Revolution’s historical leader.

“When the earthquake came,” Raimelis recalled, “we already knew how to work together.”

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

No amount of money can repair the damage which has been caused to the African people through the transatlantic slave trade, classical colonialism, and today’s neocolonialism. No amount of money can pay for that damage. The essence of reparatory justice is a just reconstruction of the world, an entirely new world.

We’re all terrorists now, maybe we should act like it.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

The earthquake in Venezuela, heartbreaking by every measure, has been made far more lethal—both in its immediate impact and long-term consequences—by factors directly attributable to U.S. imperialism’s ongoing, multi-level assault on the country and its people.

When people look at Venezuela from the outside, they often reduce Chavismo to its leadership. Leadership is important, of course, but it is only one part of a much broader reality. Over time, the Bolivarian Process has built institutional strength, political organization, territorial presence, and forms of popular participation that go far beyond electoral politics.

Chris Smalls and his best friend, Derrick Palmer, led the first successful drive to unionize an Amazon warehouse. He believes that labor must decouple from the Democratic Party, as he explains in his new book.

Today, the United States is acting according to its own rules. On January 3, it sent a message not only to Venezuela but to the entire continent: it remains the most powerful military force on the planet, and it is prepared to use that force.

The legacy of the Tricontinental lives on in Cuba’s internationalism, even as sanctions continue to constrain the island.

Ferrer’s short article offers an excellent example of a simple truth: even many apparently moderate, intellectually sophisticated observers accept the basic premises of U.S. government policy toward Cuba.

While a privileged minority lived in the most absolute opulence, the Cuban people suffered from one of the greatest social inequalities in Latin America.

We believe that it is not international observers, but the Chavista grassroots—the people who have sustained this revolutionary process for twenty-seven years, who buried their dead and resisted sanctions and destabilization, and who are still, slowly and stubbornly, building communes—who should carry the most weight.