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The Cuban Revolution: An example for us today
Black liberation, workers’ stake in defending due process and how cops and courts serve capitalist rule
May 31, 2021
AP Photo/Harold ValentineFidel Castro, left, addresses crowd in Colón, Cuba, Jan. 7, 1959, as Freedom Caravan crosses Cuba on way to Havana after overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba’s socialist revolution, along with struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation, helped us “understand the kind of revolutionary transformation of ourselves necessary to defeat capitalist rulers,” said Mary-Alice Waters at Midwest Socialist Workers Party meeting April 24.
“Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at the Socialist Workers Party’s Midwest conference held in Chicago April 24. The speaker was SWP National Committee member Mary-Alice Waters. (See article in May 10