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7Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
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FIDEL CASTRO’s Letter to President Roosevelt

NOVANEWS I’ve been fascinated by historic letters and correspondence for some time; and I wrote a post covering some of this a while ago. Letters, particularly communications never meant for public consumption, provide a fascinating insight into significant historic or cultural events, times or figures. They also can help to humanise certain figures – both historic or contemporary – who might otherwise seem like remote, distant characters or one-dimensional archetypes. There are few world figures who have acquired the stature or aura of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who surely ranks as one of the most famous, divisive and debated world figures of the twentieth century. People have analysed his speeches, his actions, his alliances, over and over again, and come to wildly differing conclusions ...
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7Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba, USA

Zionist NYT Biased Obituary of Castro

NOVANEWS By Matt Peppe | Just The Facts After Fidel Castro passed away Friday night at 90 years old, the obituaries written about him in the American press typified the U.S. government propaganda used for decades to demonize Castro and obscure the tremendous social and humanitarian advances that the Cuban Revolution was able to achieve in the face of unrelenting interference, subversion and destabilization. None were more over-the-top in their bias than the obituary in the New York Times. A mere 54 words, the lede paragraph contains an astonishing amount of misinformation and innuendo: “Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959” It’s hard to imagine any Western leader being called a “fiery apostle.” The phrase suggests Cast...
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7Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba, USA

US reactions to the death of Fidel Castro

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Rejoicing at the death of a hero There was something both sad and disturbing about popular American reactions to the death of Fidel Castro on Friday 25 November 2016. According to the New York Times, news of his death caused much of the Cuban American population of south Florida to “fill Miami’s streets with song”. Those were songs of “rejoicing” rather than dirges. We will examine why these celebrations occurred later in this analysis. However, first we want to give Señor Castro his due. Fidel Castro was the man who led the successful effort to overthrow the brutal and reactionary dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista – a dictatorship that had the backing of the US government. The Castro-led victory of 1959 began a long period of transformation for Cuba, ra...
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6Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba

Weeks Before He Died, Fidel Built a Soccer Field For Poor Kids

NOVANEWS People walk on a street in Jaimanitas where Cuba's former President Fidel Castro lived in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 2, 2016. | Photo: Reuters Fidel was a sports fan and believed in the importance of promoting free access to it across Cuba. Fidel Castro, the late leader of the Cuban Revolution, built a soccer field for poor kids of the neighborhood he lived in just two weeks before his death. RELATED: Raul Castro Reveals Fidel's Final Dying Wish Fidel, who led Cuba's 1959 revolution and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Nov. 25 at age 90. He lived on the western edge of Havana in a house adjacent to a typical Cuban neighborhood called Jaimanitas. One of Fidel's final acts was to order a soccer field built for the youth in Jaimanitas, wh...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba

‘I Am Fidel:’ Cuba’s Youth Deepen Commitment to Revolution

NOVANEWS A student wearing face paint attends a tribute to former Cuban President Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 3, 2016. | Photo: Reuters “Fidel lives in the hearts of all Cubans, Fidel becomes bigger, Fidel becomes history, Fidel will never die,” said Elian Gonzalez. To millions of Cubans, Fidel Castro was more than just a president, he also embodied revolutionary struggle, and with his death many have chosen to pay tribute to him by pledging to continue that struggle and remain loyal to the ideas of the Cuban Revolution. RELATED: Raul Castro Reveals Fidel's Final Dying Wish Through an initiative of the Cuban Communist Party, people throughout Cuba have signed a pledge affirming their commitment to the concept of the Revolution as articulated by Fidel in ...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba, United Kingdom

Birmingham: CPGB-ML, IWA, and SLP remember Comrade Fidel Castro

NOVANEWS CUBA, INTERNATIONAL, MEETINGS, RED YOUTH, SPEECHES On Sunday, December 4th, comrades from the Communist Party of Great Britain – Marxist Leninist (CPGB-ML), the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA), and the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) held a meeting to remember the Cuban Revolutionary, Fidel Castro, and his contribution to the betterment of working people in Cuba and around the world. Pictured: Cde. Paul – Commemoration of comrade Fidel Castro’s life, Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre; Birmingham Two speakers, Paul (CPGB-ML) and John Tyrrell (SLP), kicked off the meeting by giving insightful talks on the history of Cuba, including the conditions that led to the rise of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and its achievements. The meeting was then opened up to the floor for contrib...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
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Comandante Fidel Laid to Rest in Heroes’ Cemetery

NOVANEWS Cuban President Raul Castro has the honor of placing Fidel's ashes in his tomb. | Photo: teleSUR Cuba's revolutionary leader's life, influence, ideas and achievements will continue to live on, Cuban social organization leaders said. The ashes of Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, were interred Sunday morning in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba near the remains of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti. RELATED:  'Hasta Siempre, Comandante': Thousands of Cubans Mourn Fidel The funeral, described by Cuban President Raul Castro as a "simple ceremony," comes on the final day of Cuba’s nine official days of mourning in the wake of Fidel's death on Nov. 25. Following the arrival of Fidel's remains in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba Sa...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
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As we mourn Castro, it is time Africa’s youth rose up against kleptocracies

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Sekou Toure Otondi Nobody should be under the illusion that the conditions of poverty and hopelessness that crush the masses of the people in Africa are one day going to end without a bitter struggle. The time is ripe for a Socialist revolution in Africa that will overthrow elite misrule and put the continent on the path to true transformation. That is the urgent task for Africa’s teeming masses of young people. The red flag at half-mast “Soon I will be 90 years old,” he said. “Soon I will be like all the rest. Everybody's turn comes.” Those are some of Fidel Castro’s last memorable words in public, during a meeting of the Cuban Communist Party congress on April 19, 2016. [1] The words perhaps symbolised his realisation th...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Cuba, USA

Barack and Fidel: A beyond bizarre comparison

NOVANEWS Posed By: Sammi Ibrahem;Sr Netfa Freeman It is laughable – or pitiful – to compare Barack Obama to Fidel Castro. The fundamental truth is: Barack Obama is the president of imperialism. By necessity he must be a mass murdering, lying, enemy of humanity. It is an unspoken prerequisite for that job. Fidel Castro is the opposite. That’s why a long line of U.S. presidents has tried to assassinate Castro over 600 times, and committed 1,000 acts of terror against his people. With less than a month left before the end of the Obama administration the barrage of Western, particularly U.S., “news” media desecrating the legacy of Fidel Castro should come as no surprise. El Comandante Fidel Castro transitioned on November 25th, at 10:29 p.m. It is a reflection of...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
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Continent mourns Communist leader who dedicated his life to human liberation

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem;Sr Abayomi Azikiwe No other political figure outside of Africa symbolized global solidarity with the aspirations of the people than Comandante President Fidel Castro Ruz of the Republic of Cuba. Historical, political and cultural ties between the people of Africa and Cuba extend back over five centuries. Cuba was colonized by European empires utilizing the labor of enslaved Africans whose super-exploitation laid the basis for the rise of world capitalism and imperialism. In a speech delivered by President Castro on April 19, 1976 in Havana commemorating the 15th anniversary of the heroic victory over exiled mercenaries coordinated by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), the Cuban leader sa...
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