History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
Exiles from tomorrow: Cuba in a time of struggle
In Havana’s streets, where past and future dance, PAWEL WARGAN traces the island’s unwavering socialist commitment, a torch lighting the path for liberation movements from Angola’s battlefields to Palestine's besieged streets
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis, writes ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
By making it simpler to support workers in struggle, Strike Map’s new Solidarity Fund aims to strengthen strikes when they need it most, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
HAVANA compels you to think about time. It is not the time of the philosophers who debate whether “now” is a speckle or a span.
It is a material time, whose past rolls into the present, and whose future peeks through in the institutions and practices built by the hands of the Cuban people.
Everywhere there are auguries of a utopia not unrealised, but denied. Cuba is anachronistic in both directions, towards both past and future.
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