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Cuba’s forgotten hero: Hatuey
As Cubans mark July 26 as the day the revolution began – and a national holiday – STEVEN WALKER remembers an earlier fighter for liberation, whose face is to be found on beer bottles and cigar packets today
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
CUBA and many other countries will mark July 26 as a signature moment in revolutionary history, when Fidel Castro and his band of guerillas landed on the island in 1953 to begin their campaign to overthrow the US-backed Batista dictatorship and finally liberate Cuba six years later.
Cuban heroes mentioned in modern histories tend to reference Jose Marti as one of the most significant original fighters against colonial occupation by Spanish imperialist forces.
He was an intellectual and revolutionary figure helping garner support for Cuban independence.
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